The carvings came from an area of Baffin Island known as Frobisher Bay at the time. One of them shows an eskimo who has a very bad abscess on a tooth which is forcing him to close his eye.

Inuit carvings In the late 1960s, the owner of these Inuit carvings was a dental officer on Baffin Island in the Arctic, travelling from settlement to settlement and providing dental care.

These 1950s-era Eastern Inuit carvings are part of the Harold Harshaw Collection that was recently donated to the Great Northern Arts Festival. (Submitted by Tony Devlin ) ...

Ivory carving, of course, dates from Eskimo pre-history. Harpoon heads, household implements and combs were whittled from it.

Q: This carving was given to my great-uncle when he retired from the Department of Lands and Forests in the late 1960s. After his death, it was willed to my mother. As you can see, it’s an Inuit ...

“Carvings such as this are exceptionally rare and valuable,” Warren said. Saila’s work is on the cover of leading publications on Inuit art and in museums around the globe, he said.

This carving by Dean Hurliman of Burlington, Iowa, depicts an Eskimo curlew in flight. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Jerry Butler) [RELATED: Eskimo curlews used to fly through Arkansas] ...

After decades in storage in a home in California, dozens of Inuit carvings have come home to Canada's North. The donation of 72 small carvings recently arrived in Inuvik, Northwest Territories ...

Three valuable Inuit carvings were stolen from Madrona Gallery in a break-in Monday morning, says the gallery’s director. Someone broke into the gallery around 7:45 a.m. through Trounce Alley and ...

The donation of 72 small carvings recently arrived in Inuvik, N.W.T., for the Great Northern Arts Festival Society. Tony Devlin, the society's chair, described the donation as a series of Christmas ...