Contemporary Inuit art usually is dated to 1948, when Toronto artist James Houston visited the eastern Arctic and returned to Montreal with a few samples of small carvings in stone and ivory.

This late-Victorian parlor lamp is a type popularly called a “Gone with the Wind” lamp after the 1939 film. These Inuit walrus-ivory carvings date from the 1940s.

Tupilaqs sell for $95 on up, while other sculptures sell for $80 for a 6-inch soapstone carving of a whale’s flukes, an Inuit magical totem, to $800 for works in bone or horn by name artists.

To be informed of upcoming illustrated auction catalogs offering Inuit stone carvings and artwork (that one can bid for by phone or mail or in person), write Skinner Inc. in care of The Heritage ...

Carvings make up nearly two-thirds of the works in the WAG's Inuit collection. Since the 1950s, selling stone sculptures in the south has been an essential economic driver in the North.

View Inuit bone bear head carving - c1970 (Circa 1970) By Inuit School, 20th century; Sculpture; 8.5 x 9 x 4 21.5 x 23 x 10 cm 21.5 x 23 x 10 cm; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized ...

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, N.W.T., for the Great ...

The Inuit's Cold Feat From the Far North, Sculptures That Capture a Culture December 23, 2000 By Jo Ann Lewis ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...