Kiakshuk
Summer Caribou Hunt
1960
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Kiakshuk
Summer Caribou Hunt
1960
Physical Qualities
Stone cut printed in black and brown inks, Sheet: 326 x 608 mm. (12 13/16 x 23 15/16 in.)
Image: 241 x 496 mm. (9 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Board of Trustees Fund
Object Number
1961.180
Crafted through a collaborative process at the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, these stone cut prints reveal Inuit people engaging in hunting practices. Kiakshuk and Innukjuakju Pudlat are both respected printmakers known for their works that featured such imagery. In 1959, the year prior to these works’ creation, the Qallunaat (the Inuktitut word for non-Inuit) artist James Houston worked alongside Inuit partners to establish the Co-op and associated print shop, which thrives to this day. There, Inuit artists utilized stone—an abundant resource and familiar artistic medium—to adapt Japanese woodblock printing techniques. Printmakers crafted printing plates by tracing an artist’s drawing onto a stone block and then carving away the surrounding stone. Many early prints from this Co-op reveal scenes of traditional life, which were widely sought after by
Qallunaat consumers.
Darienne Turner, The Baltimore Museum of Art, “Arctic Artistry”, July 17, 2022 to January 8, 2023.
Inscribed: Below image, along bottom, in graphite: "Summer Caribou Hunt Stone cut 49/50 Cape Dorset Baffin Island Jan. 1960 Kiakshuk"