Lot 151
KANANGINAK POOTOOGOOK (1935-2010)
Note:
“‘I don’t really want to go back to the old days. But when you think of the old days, it makes you proud - just to think of them. In the old days, the men used to hunt seals on top of the snow like this [Nasiqniatuq, No. 37]. When a man was hunting a seal on the ice, he would try very hard not to make a noise so that he would have a chance to get the seal. That hole between the hunter’s legs is the seal’s breathing hole. Birds always try to stay around when they know a man is hunting. They know that a human man will get something to eat. They always wait to get fed.”
-Kanaginak Pootoogook, as quoted in the Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection 1978, MF Feheley Publishers, 1978, p. 46, pl. 37