This work available at the gallery is one of the final pieces produced by this noted and revered artist.

Pauta Saila, sculptor (b at a hunting camp on the W coast S Baffin I, NWT Dec 1917, died June 9, 2009, in Cape Dorset). Technically skilful in stone or on paper, Pauta is known particularly for his "dancing bears," powerful, somewhat abstract sculptures of upright polar bears. The son of Saila, an important Inuit leader, Pauta grew up on his father's immense southwestern Baffin hunting territory and knows the habits of polar bears from close observation. He lives with his second wife, well-known graphic artist Pitaloosie, at Cape Dorset, and some 40 of his own drawings have been published as prints. Widely exhibited and in many public collections, an important work is his massive Bear, executed in 1967 during the International Sculpture Symposium in High Park, Toronto, and now at the McMichael Collection at Kleinburg, Ontario. In the 1960s, Pauta carved various arctic creatures as well as bears, but in the 1980s bears balancing on one foot became his principal theme.

Author DOROTHY HARLEY EBER, The Canadian Encyclopedia

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Pootoogook Jaw, Bear, 13 x 6, $3,200.00

Pootoogook Jaw, Cape Dorset
 
Pootoogook Jaw was born September 2, 1959 in Cape Dorset and

currently resides in Iqaluit. His parents, Melia and Joe are also Cape Dorset artists.

Jaw has been carving for over 18 years, and learned his craft by watching his father

along with other talented carvers in his South Baffin community.

He’s considered a master carver, a distinction given to only a select few artists.

The pride he takes when he sets blade to rock is revealed in his results.

"Boy with slingshot", serpentine stone.

Figure of the boy measures11 x 10 x 5 ins.,

overall sculpture measures 18 ins. high x

 12 x 6 dimensions of the base

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