Equipped with only the most elementary tools, he is fashioning a piece of the Earth into a representation of the life he sees around him–in this case a bear, but often a seal, a walrus or a wolf.

7.5" x 6.5" x 4.5" 19 x 16.5 x 11.5 cm 7.5" x 6.5" x 4.5" 19 x 16.5 x 11.5 cm ...

As the Inuit carved their traditional figures of stone ... Lucy Sanertanut's brown-black pot has a gray face jutting out from the side, with seals perched on the head; Roger Aksadjuak shaped two very ...

An Inuit hunter in parka and mukluks crouches above a seal hole in the ice ... authentically Inuit as any piece of hand-carved sculpture -- or maybe even more so. The works produced by Igloolik ...

“Seal Hunter” was carved by Simon Kasadluak from Inukjuak ... A Montreal Gazette feature article on the trophy at the time quoted Inuit as describing the area, which is present-day Sanikiluaq ...

“He gave me a big chunk and told me to make a seal,” he says ... says that “we Inuit have always carved, since time immemorial.” His late mother Irene Kataq Angutitok was a sculptor.

On a bright and sunny evening this June, the slowly thawing carcass of a seal lay on the floor of Walker Court, the Art Gallery of Ontario’s central and most public hub. A group of Inuit carved ...