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Eyetoaq married James Kingilik, also a soapstone sculptor, [2] in the early 1950s. [3] They had seven children, five biological and two adopted. [3] In 1968 they moved from their traditional Inuit camp at Beverly Lake to the Baker Lake settlement. [2] [3] After moving, they lived in a tent for two months due to a lack of housing. [3]
Caribou in soapstone by Osuitok Ipeelee, Dennos Museum Center. Inuit sculptures had been produced prior to contact with the Western world. They were small-scale and made of ivory. In 1951, James Houston encouraged Inuit in Kinngait to produce stone carvings. [24] It was mostly men who took up carving.
Modern Inuit art began in the late 1940s, when with the encouragement of the Canadian government they began to produce prints and serpentine sculptures for sale in the south. Greenlandic Inuit have a unique textile tradition intregrating skin-sewing, furs, and appliqué of small pieces of brightly dyed marine mammal organs in mosaic designs ...
The West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative, also known as the Kinngait Co-operative is an Inuit co-operative in Kinngait, Nunavut best known for its activities in buying, producing and selling Inuit artworks [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The co-operative is part of Arctic Co-operatives Limited , a group of locally owned businesses that provide fundamental services in ...
The guild, which had tried as early as the 1920s to foster an Inuit-handicrafts market, was impressed with the carving; they were equally impressed by Houston. The guild secured a federal government grant of $1,100 and sent Houston back north in the summer of 1949 to make bulk purchases in various communities in the Eastern Arctic.
Bell, Richard T. Report on Soapstone in the Belcher Islands, N.W.T. St. Catharines, Ont: Dept. of Geological Sciences, Brock University, 1973. Born, David O. "Eskimo Education and the Trauma of Social Change". Social Science Notes – 1, Northern Science Research Group, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, January 15, 1970
The qulliq, a type of oil lamp, is carved out of soapstone and used by the Inuit and Dorset peoples. [13] The soapstone oil lamps indicate these people had easy access to oils derived from marine mammals. [14] In the modern period, soapstone is commonly used for carvings in Inuit art. [15]
The qulliq [1] or kudlik [2] (Inuktitut: ᖁᓪᓕᖅ, romanized: qulliq, IPA:; Greenlandic: qulleq; Inupiaq: naniq), is the traditional oil lamp used by many circumpolar peoples, including the Inuit, the Chukchi [3] and the Yupik peoples. [4] The fuel is seal-oil or blubber, and the lamp is made of soapstone. [5]