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153 MAUDIE RACHEL OKITTUQ (1944-), SPENCE BAY / TALOYOAK ANGUISHED WOMAN stone, no later than 1980, signed in syllabics 5" x 2.5" x 1.5" — 12.7 x 6.4 x 3.8 cm. Provenance: The Collection of Dr. Francis Sparshott, 1980 Literature: Darlene Coward Wight, Art & Expression of the Netsilik, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2000, page 97, pl. 87 Note: In its sullen composition, this work bears a resemblance to Okittuq’s “Poor Woman.” In lot 153, a kneeling woman expresses a quiet and tender sadness, her mouth drawn into a great frown and her eyes down turned. Like “Poor Woman,” created during the same period, this work may also possess an autobiographical context. In an interview with Wight, Okittuq recalled “the anxious period in her childhood, after her mother died, when there was no one to make skin clothing for the family.” $600—900
154 HANNAH ALOOLOO AKIKULU (1950-) OR GEORGE AKIKULU (1940-), ARCTIC BAY / IKPIARJUK WOMAN IN TRADITIONAL CLOTHING stone, signed in syllabics, c. 1965 4" x 1.5" x 1" — 10.2 x 3.8 x 2.5 cm. Provenance: The Collection of Dr. Francis Sparshott, 1984 $300—500
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