Posted 12 years ago
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VINTAGE 1970'S INUIT AUTHENTIC carved soapstone of a Seal. Has the Canada Art Eskimo tag. Signed in Syllabics on the bottom. Positive the Dated is 1974. I did find out it is supposedly made by INUIT in Arctic Quebec (Povungnituk). About 5 inches long by 3.5 inches tall. You can tell this is an older piece as the Hang Tag DOES NOT have any UPC code on it. I saw newer Hang Tags now do.
Anyone else know who the maker is?
Or can read those Syllabics symbols on the bottom? Anyone......??
Any additional info is greatly appreciated!! THANKS
Timothy: ??? (Timuti).
I got the above from a site that translates Inuit and they came up with Timothy, I added the question marks. The chart does actually list the symbols as ti-mu-ti
Here's a piece that I have Rose with all the research I did. Mine is by Isa Smiler a well known artist but not one of his more valuable pieces. Most of it came from this site below. You can e mail Christa Ouimet director of the Inuit art department at Waddington's in Toronto. She can help ID and value your piece. You can contact her from the site below:
http://www.katilvik.com/content/bio/view.php?bid=1763&criteria=disc_num&q=E9706
Here's my post from a while back
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/106879-inuit-stone-carving-a-fisherman-with-hi