24" Masterpiece Whale Bone Umiak (Boat) by Bob Kussy & Goota Ashoona *AHOY!*

**This Item Is Eligible For Our 0% Interest Layaway Plan.

U.S. buyers cannot purchase this piece due to Whalebone and Ivory restrictions from Canadian Government Customs.  We ship ONLY to a Canadian address.



Even after being an Art Curator for years, there are still pieces that leave me speechless!!! 

AHOY! is one of those pieces.

A piece .....so extraordinary that it deserves a category of its own.

A piece .....that tells a story that draws you in and holds you a willing captive.

A piece that could easily find a permanent home in a National Art Gallery.


AHOY! tells the timeless tale of human survival.

Our Inuit men are travelling in an Umiak.

To fish or to hunt seal.

Are they searching for a new camp?

Are they fleeing to safety? 

When people travel, whether by land or sea. there is a real danger of not surviving the journey.

Kussy and Ashoona have placed seven men in the boat.

One behind the other, they are working as one unit. 

These men know that their lives depend on their cooperation.

They must coordinate all their effort into paddling their boat in order to reach their destination. 

We pray that our travelers will safely arrive at their destination; that this will just be a routine trip for them.

The strain of their work is beginning to show on our travelers’ faces...

Kussy and Ashoona are internationally respected Master Carvers and masterful storytellers. 

They are driven to understand and celebrate man’s complex nature.

Their pieces have a “soul” reflective of Kussy and Ashoona’s compassion for the inhabitants of this world; animals and man included.

Any collector of Inuit art will recognize the extraordinary beauty of this piece.

It has a bohemian essence that is both traditional and sophisticated.

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