Photo: Inuit carving fetches big price By NUNATSIAQ NEWS June 5, 2018
This Inuit carving fetched a big price at auction: “Shaman with opposing faces” by Karoo Ashevak sold May 29 at a Waddington’s Auction House sale for $90,000. Ashevak lived a nomadic hunting life in today’s Kitikmeot region before moving into Spence Bay, now called Taloyoak, in 1960. His career as an artist started in 1968 by participating in a government-funded carving program. Ashevak died in 1974. (PHOTO COURTESY OF WADDINGTON’S)