Inuit Art: Drum Dancer
Inuit Artist: Andrew Polongayak (1946-?)
Size: 8" high, 5" wide
Community: Gjoa Haven, NU 11/26
Material: Basaltite & Caribou Antler
id: L-9980afjjy
**This Item is Eligible for our 0% Interest Layaway Plan
NOTE** Inuit Art is Handcrafted in Canada.
COPPER PENNY was featured at the WAG (Winnipeg Art Gallery) at an Artist-in-Residence Exhibition.
The Gjoa Haven artists are unique in their style of carving.
This is the Grotesque style which is a highly celebrated and emotionally raw movement associated with the Gjoa Haven community.
It combines exaggerated features, contorted faces with wide staring eyes, flared nostrils and open gaping mouths.
Using caribou bone, artists carve inlaid eyes, and peg like teeth.
Occasionally horsehair is is used for hair.
Common subjects are drum dancers, contorted hunters and shamans.
Copper Penny is a heart warming Drum Dancer holding his copper metal drum waiting for his cue to start his historical dance.
His large smile shows off his peg like teeth.
Copper Penny is a Gjoa Haven Superstar.
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