Abraham Anghik Ruben - World Renowned Inuit Artist Biography. Powerful, compelling, exquisite are but a few of the words to describe the work of master sculptor Abraham Anghik Ruben. Stories, myths and legends of ancient Northern cultures find new life and expression through his work. Linked by strong narratives, his sculptures speak of cultures lost and times forgotten. Abraham was born in 1951 in a camp south of Paulatuk, Northwest Territories and east of the Mackenzie River Delta. This region is home to the Mackenzie Inuit or Inuvialuit. The late 1890s would see the arrival of large-scale commercial whaling fleets into the region soon followed by an influx of Inuit from Alaska.
Abraham’s own great-grandparents, noted shamans Apakark and Kagun came from the Bering Sea region of Alaska during this time. Abraham pays tribute to them in the sculpture Apakark and Kagan-Journey to the Underworld (plate 14). Up until the age of 8 Abraham lived with his family on the land migrating with the changing patterns of the seasons. Solo Exhibitions Troshan, Inc.
Alaska Literary Series | University of Alaska PRESS. Future King Island Speakers. A PROJECT Presented to the Faculty Of the University of Alaska Fairbanks In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of MASTER OF EDUCATION BY Bernadette Yaayuk Alvanna-Stimpfle University of Alaska, Fairbanks April, 2007 Just the older population of the King Island people can speak Inupiaq language fluently. The young people and children do not. In between the generations there is a gradual movement from speaking fluently to not understanding the language. There is a need to strengthen King Island Inupiaq. With this in mind, the purpose of this work is studying how other indigenous people have successfully revitalized their heritage language.
They have fostered intergenerational learning of the heritage language through various ways. Based on this information, this project is an adaptation of “Inupiaq Phrases and Conversations” by Lawrence Kaplan and Lorena Williams in the Kotzebue dialect. Introduction Background-A Bit of King Island History An Inupiaq Education. What Now, Walrus? | Hakai Magazine. The air is calm this Arctic morning as Zacharias Kunuk prepares for a long day.
His morning routine does nothing to quell his nerves—today he’s going on his first walrus hunt. It’s 1980, late July—the month walrus hunters climb into motorized freighter canoes and leave Igloolik, a small Inuit community in Nunavut, Canada. Every summer since he was a boy, Kunuk has watched the hunters return, weary but triumphant with walrus meat. He’s always wondered how far these men travel to reach the floating rafts of ice where walruses rest during the summer. And he’s pondered how just a few men can possibly kill a creature that might weigh more than 20 men and then wrestle it into a canoe. This is the day Kunuk will get answers. The temperature on an Arctic summer day rarely exceeds 10 °C, with much cooler air out by the sea ice, so the hunters dress for the climate: skin boots, mittens, and knee-length parkas with fur-lined hoods.
But nobody knows for sure. Bill Hess – Aġviq: Sacred Whale, Carrier of Life « burn magazine. Bill Hess May 5, 2015: Rays stream from sun onto ocean to strike hunters from all angles, cooking them out of their clothing layer by layer until finally they stand bare chested at the water’s edge. I remember a beach in Mexico – but this is Arctic Alaska, where Iñupiat hunters have ventured onto Chukchi Sea ice to seek the gift of aġvik – the bowhead whale.
Since Time Immemorial, aġvik has given Iñupiat not only nutrition, but the foundation of a resourceful, resilient, culture and enabled them to thrive in one of the harshest environments on earth. Multiple threats have followed the British explorers who sailed into their home in the early 19th century, followed by the Yankee whaling industry, which decimated the bowhead. Both survived and slowly began to replenish their populations.
Come the open water season of late summer and early fall, hunters again met aġvik as bowheads migrated back through the Beaufort and Chukchi to their winter home in the Bering Sea. I joke! Bio Related Links. Informations officielles pour voyager au Nunavik, dans le Grand Nord du Québec. Nunavut. 1 Situation générale À la suite de l’Accord sur les revendications territoriales du Nunavut conclu en 1993, la carte du Canada a été transformée, le 1eravril 1999, par la division des Territoires du Nord-Ouest en deux entités territoriales distinctes: les Territoires du Nord-Ouest (qui conservent leur nom dans la partie ouest) et le territoire du Nunavut (voir la carte). Le Nunavut est bordé à l'ouest par les régions d'Inuvik et de Fort-Smith, au sud par les provinces du Manitoba et de la Saskatchewan, au sud-est par l'Ontario et le Québec, et à l'est par et la mer de Baffin et la mer du Labrador.
L’accord de 1993 prévoyait la mise sur pied d’un «gouvernement public» qui représentait sans discrimination les Inuits et les non-autochtones et serait responsable de l’éducation, de la santé, des services sociaux et de nombreux autres domaines d’ordre territorial (ou provincial). Cependant, les problèmes sociaux du Nunavut dépassent presque l’imagination. 2 Données démolinguistiques 5 L'avenir. Ivory Carvers at Stake | oscars originals | alaska yup'ik art. Inuits. 1re rangée : Arnaq, Mikak(en), Suersaq, Changunak Antisarlook Andrewuk.2e rangée : Henning Jakob Henrik Lund, Peter Pitseolak, Ray Mala, Allakariallak.3e rangée : Kinuajuak Asivak, Willie Hensley(en), Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Eva Aariak.4e rangée : Kuupik Kleist, Irene Bedard, Tanya Tagaq Gillis, Nive Nielsen.5e rangée : Natan Obed(en), Jordin Tootoo, Elisapie, Jesse Cockney. Les Inuits sont un groupe de peuples autochtones partageant des similitudes culturelles et une origine ethnique commune vivant dans les régions arctiques de l'Amérique du Nord.
Il y a environ 150 000 Inuits vivant au Groenland, au Canada et aux États-Unis. Bien que le Conseil circumpolaire inuit regroupe également les Yupiks de l'Alaska et de la Sibérie, ceux-ci ne sont pas des Inuits dans le sens d'une descendance thuléenne. Historiquement, les Inuits étaient un peuple de chasseurs nomades. De nos jours, si la plupart des Inuits sont devenus sédentaires, une grande partie vit encore de la chasse et de la pêche. Anthropos - Eskimo Mask - SPECIAL SALE GALLERY. Rare Eskimo shaman mask sells for record-breaking $2.5 million.
The rare 19th century Donati Studio Mask, made by Yup'ik Eskimo shamans, goes on sale for $2.1 million on Friday. Yup'ik Mask owned by Surrealist artist sold Thursday for $2.5 millionMasks were used in shamanistic dances requesting good weather and foodArt Dealer, Donald Ellis: "They were essentially conceptual works of art" (CNN) -- Facial protrusions that look like hands; dangling sticks and feathers; a wide and mischievous grin: It's no wonder this rare Eskimo shaman's mask was so precious to the Surrealists.
And now a price has been put on the value of the Donati Studio Mask -- it was sold for over $2.5 million Thursday to a U.S. collector. It breaks the previous record for indigenous U.S. art sold at public auction, said a spokesman for the Winter Antiques Show in New York, where the mask was sold. A second mask sold for more than $2.1 million to another private buyer from the United States. Gallery: Yup'ik masks After the performance, she said, the masks would be destroyed. The faces behind the masks. The term ‘Eskimo’ has long since fallen out of favour as a term for indigenous peoples of the Arctic. No longer willing to accept a term coined by outsiders, the groups it was once applied to now call themselves ‘Inuit’. However, using modern language to define yesterday’s worldviews would be to ignore the context in which they developed.
It makes sense, then, if in a particularly jarring fashion, for Odrupgaard Museum, in Copenhagen, to call its temporary show of Henri Matisse portraits of Inuit, created in the 1940s, Matisse and the Eskimos. The exhibit, on view until November 29, seeks to explore an “unknown” chapter of Mr Matisse’s career in which his life-long interest in primitive art (again to use the term popular during the time – today we might call it ‘exotic’) saw him enter into a brief phase in which his interests were directed towards the Inuit.
MORE images from the exhibit at end of article SEE RELATED: Alaska group offering reward for missing artefacts. Annie Pootoogook: 1969–2016. Annie Pootoogook, Playing Super Nintendo, 2003–4. Courtesy Feheley Fine Arts. Annie Pootoogook has passed away. Inuit everywhere in Inuit Nunangat (the four Inuit regions of Canada) mourn her passing, even as we celebrate her life and accomplishments. Pootoogook was a hugely influential artist who forever changed the face of Inuit art. For that, we owe a huge debt to her artistic legacy. I only met Pootoogook a handful of times during the seven years that I lived in Ottawa. As an Inuk then-grad student studying Inuit art history, I was a little in awe of her fame and talent.
Judging from the outpouring of grief and remembering across social media this past weekend, many here in southern Canada also feel the same. I did not know her personally except in the way that we all knew her, through her art. Pootoogook’s legacy is significant. Her artwork is thoughtful, humorous, open, satirical, witty and brave. Her images de-exoticized the Arctic. Annie Pootoogook Inuujuniiqmat. Annie Pootoogook. Inuit. Les Inuits (« Les Hommes ») sont un peuple autochtone des régions arctiques de la Sibérie et de l'Amérique du Nord (l'Alaska, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, le Nunavut, le Québec, le Labrador) ainsi que du Groenland. La conférence inuite circumpolaire regroupe les Inuits et Inuvialuits du Canada, les Kalaallits du Groenland, les Inupiaqs et Yupiks de l'Alaska et les Yupiks de Russie. En revanche, les Yupiks ne sont pas des Inuits dans le sens d'une descendance thuléenne. Au Groenland, au Canada et en Alaska, il y a environ 150 000 Inuits.
Les Inuits préfèrent le nom qu’ils se sont donné, soit celui d’Inuits, qui signifie « les gens » en inuktitut. Les Inuits de l'Amérique du Nord ne sont pas, à proprement parler, des Amérindiens, bien qu'autochtones ; leurs ancêtres seraient venus en Amérique plusieurs millénaires après l'arrivée des Paléoasiatiques qui sont en fait, les ancêtres des Amérindiens. Préhistoire Les cultures néolithiques du nord-est de la Sibérie (8000 à 2000 ans avant J.C.) L'art historique inuit - George Curleigh, collectionneur. George M. Curleigh se joint à la GRC en 1920 et est affecté à Pangnirtung, sur l'île de Baffin, de 1926 à 1928. Il sera plus tard nommé commandant du détachement pour l'Arctique de l'Ouest, à Aklavik. Il se retire, selon toute probabilité, au Nouveau-Brunswick. Il meurt en 1985, selon les dossiers de la GRC. En 1973, il vend au MCC la collection acquise durant son séjour à Pangnirtung. Dans sa lettre d'accompagnement, il évoque les circonstances dans lesquelles il a recueilli les pièces.
Il les acquérait en pratiquant le troc durant ses patrouilles habituelles ou, encore, des Inuits des camps environnants les apportaient au détachement de la GRC, à Pangnirtung * Archives du MCC (Dossier des collectionneurs) Curleigh désigne l'artiste du nom de Ataguja. Historique d'exposition :L'économie autochtone. Reflets de l'Arctique. Exceptionnellement grande pour une pièce de la période historique, cette baleine fait peut-être partie du baleinier, également de la collection de Curleigh (IV-C-5180). Inuit Art Centre to reveal beauty of the North in the south - Manitoba. Go into any Canadian souvenir shop and next to the canoe shelf and stuffed moose, there's bound to be small stone carvings, likely made overseas, sold as Inuit art.
They're cheap imitations making profit from stereotypes of Canada's North. "You know, 'airport art' has been a term that's been given to it," said the Winnipeg Art Gallery's longtime Inuit art curator, Darlene Coward Wight. With every exhibition Coward Wight has put together — and she's curated about 90 — she said she's tried to "cut against" Inuit art stereotypes. "I like to surprise people," she said.
For 27 of the 30 years Coward Wight has overseen the WAG's collection of Inuit art, she's worked out of the gallery's underground vault, surrounded by stone and ivory. That will change when the WAG opens its new, $65-million Inuit Art Centre, bringing the world's largest Inuit art collection to the surface, including 7,600 sculptures, dozens of hand-sewn wall hangings and more than 3,000 drawings and prints. 1 of 6 1 of 10. Angry Inuk by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril. Splash | Inuktitut Tusaalanga. Angirattut (Full Film) | IsumaTV. About this video Director: Zacharias Kunuk | Canada | Inuktitut | 2014 After being relocated from their homeland 5 decades ago and dispersed throughout Nunavut, a group of elders return to Siugarjuk and embrace the restorative power of their homeland to heal personal loss. In doing so they share their life history and oral history of an ancient way of life to help the next generation of Inuit meet the challenge of survival in the 21st century. Award-winning Igloolik filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk follows this homecoming voyage to celebrate his ancestors and their life on the land.
Source: Kingulliit Productions © Kingulliit Productions Inc 2014. Comprendre la violence familiale et les agressions sexuelles parmi les membres des Premières nations, les Métis et les Inuits dans les territoires - JusteRecherche numéro 15. Between the Lines | Uphere Magazine. As a little girl, Ellen Ittunga loved to trace the grey lines in her grandmother’s upper arms. From the top of her shoulder, she’d start with a line of vertical notches curving around the joint, rising from a flat, double line. Those notches made her think of the flames of the qulliq, the seal oil lamp.
Underneath that, several rows of upside-down y-shapes completed a cap sleeve, and all the way down the rest of the arm, there were short, broken stitches made to look like columns and columns of caribou sinews, neatly lined up for sewing; they fanned out across her heavy arms, almost to the elbow. Underneath the old woman’s dress, Ellen saw her thighs were tattooed as well. Ellen never thought to ask what the designs meant—she understood their purpose to be inherent in their uncomplicated beauty.
“Kakiniit!” The older woman looked up. ELDERS' STORIES, photos and anthropologists’ notes might reconstruct the tattooing process: It was mainly a women’s art. It worked. Yuungnaqpiallerput - The Way We Genuinely Live - Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival. Rare Century-old images of the Inuit people by the country's first female photographer. These amazing images show life in the frozen Canadian wilderness as depicted by the country's first professional female photographer. Both photographers are featured in the new exhibit, which is presented in conjunction with the Exposure Photography Festival.
Eventually, the Moodies seemed to take cues from each other. Douglas got better at composition and even tried his hand at portraits. Geraldine eventually equipped herself with a hand-held camera and left the studio to explore the barren landscapes. All are reproductions from a collection of vintage negatives that was gifted to Glenbow from the Perceval family, descendants of the Moodies who had them stored at a ranch south of Calgary. The Moodies both lived into their nineties. Douglas Cass, the director of Glenbow’s library and archives, was tipped off to the existence of the collection by author Donny White, who had written the 1998 book In Search of Geraldine Moodie. Listening for Sedna: Contemporary Inuit Art and Climate - Inuit Art Quarterly. Tracing the Lines of Alethea Aggiuq Arnaquq-Baril's Tunniit - Inuit Art Quarterly. Alaska Native Artists | Museum.
Liste alphabétique de vocabulaire | Inuktut Tusaalanga. Une nouvelle plateforme culturelle en ligne consacrée à la littérature inuit – Regard sur l'Arctique. New documentary recounts bizarre climate changes seen by Inuit elders. Sans titre.