Ben Kovik

Inuit: Transformation

2018

Ningosiak Ashoona, also known as Ning, was born into a family of talented artists. At a young age, she moved to live with her grandparents in Cape Dorset, on the south coast of Baffin Island...

Ningosiak Ashoona, also known as Ning, was born into a family of talented artists. At a young age, she moved to live with her grandparents in Cape Dorset, on the south coast of Baffin Island...

A prominent Canadian Inuit sculptor and draftsman* and the father of a family of artists, Tuna Iquliq (aka: Toona Erkoolik [see footnote for more]; Inuit Disc Number*: E2-167) was bo...

Pavinaq Petalaulassie was born in 1961 to the late Aggeak Petaulassie, a first-generation Cape Dorset carver. His mother, Timangiak, was also a carver as well as a distinguished grap...

A well finished Inuit style deep olive colored stone sculpture depicting a Shamanic sequence of a human and animal spirit engaged in a ritual power exchange. Signed on base. Dimen...

A fine early Inuit sculpture from the remote Arctic village of Eskimo Point, also known as Arviat, depicting a seated and leaning figure. A very lively expressive carving. We attrib...

This handcrafted sculpture was made in Northern Canada by an Inuit artisan in circa 1970. This sculpture is a series of two stylized human figures intermixed with two representations of presumably Spirits, which has several carved faces in them. The entire sculpture is composed of hand carved and handcrafted antler, likely Caribou. This sculpture may symbolize a blessing of good fortune for an upcoming hunt. The series of four figures are each pegged on the bottom and fit into holes drilled into the base. The base is numbered on the bottom which identifies that it was registered, and also has a paper label. Due to the composition of this sculpture it may only be shipped within Canada...

Large stone carving of a bird by the indigenous Inuit People who inhabit parts of Canada and Alaska. The sculpture is signed on bottom by unknown a...