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GERMAINE ARNAKTAUYOK (1946-)
Igloo like things in the sky; etching
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Germaine Arnaktauyok (Indigenous Inuk, b. 1946):
Mother Earth
My Sweet Baby
Spring Fishing
My Father's Inukshuk
Germaine Arnaktauyok (born in 1946 in Maniitsoq, Greenland) is a native Inuk from the Igloolik area of Nunavut, currently living in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
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Germaine Arnaktauyok (Inuk, b. 1946, Iglulik, Nunavut, Canada, based Yellowknife, NT, Canada) - First Light, Drawings: Ink on Paper
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#BookRecommendation for NarwhalDay :
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend (2017)
Bonus: I saw the 2019 NMNH exhibition the #narwhal book is based on, and found a few photos of the #Inuit artworks on display:
1. Carved Narwhal Figure
Canada, mid-20th c.
Soapstone, ivory
2. Narwhal Composition sculpture
Kakee Ningeeochiak
Cape Dorset, Canada, n.d.
Soapstone & caribou antler
3. Allangua (Narwhal)
Tim Pitsiulak
Cape Dorset, Canada, 2016
Reproduction of Lithograph
4. A Woman Who Became a Narwhal
Germaine Arnaktauyok
Iqaluit, Canada, 1993
Etching & aquatint
#animals in art#animal holiday#book recommendation#amazon associates#narwhal#narwhals#Narwhal Day#Narwhal Appreciation Day#marine mammals#cetaceans#natural history#exhibiton#museum visit#Smithsonian NMNH#Canadian art#Inuit art#First Nations art#Indigenous art#Inuit
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Inuit artist Germaine Arnaktauyok, who grew up listening to her father’s stories in Inuit legends.
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Aasivak [Inuit mythology]
Given the harsh environment in which the Inuit people live, it comes as no surprise that Inuit mythology is full of stories about strange and dangerous monsters that dwell the snowy plains. Among them is Aasivak, the spider spirit. She is an Inua – a supernatural spirit – associated with spiders.
She wielded potent magical powers and was very skilled with them. Using her magic, she could shapeshift into different forms and transform into a human. It is said that Aasivak captured and ate humans.
One myth tells of an Inuk hunter who was searching for caribous. The man encountered a strange woman far away from his village. The woman invited him into her hut and he obliged. But when the hunter was inside her house, he could tell something was off. Although she looked human, she greatly terrified him for reasons that are unclear to me. Perhaps she exhibited some sort of magical power or perhaps she made a careless mistake when shapeshifting and retained some parts of her spider form. In any case, the frightened hunter attacked her and chopped off the creature’s head. The corpse fell on the ground and began to transform and shrink, until it became a spider. Terrified, the hunter ran away.
When he was outside, he looked back at the hut and could see Aasivak through the window. Somehow, she was a human again, and her head was attached to her body. Aasivak left her house and shouted at the hunter, asking him to come back.
The hunter, however, ran back to his village. This story originated in the Cumberland Sound area in Canada.
Source:
Christopher, N., 2013, The Hidden: a compendium of arctic giants, dwarves, gnomes, trolls, faeries, and other strange beings from Inuit oral history.
(image source: Germaine Arnaktauyok, illustration for “Those That Cause Fear” by Christopher Neil)
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Germaine Arnaktauyok
Tattoo II
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Germaine Arnaktauyok
Germaine Arnaktauyok is an accomplished artist and writer, based in Yellowknife, NT. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba, Commercial Art and Fine Craft at Algonquin College as well as Printmaking at Arctic College in Nunavut. In her work, Arnaktauyok focuses primarily on Inuit myths, stories and feminist narratives centred on birth and motherhood. She has illustrated and written several books, including illustrating the recently published "Takannaaluk" released in spring 2018.
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Germaine Arnaktauyok
“The prints and etchings of Germaine Arnaktauyok, 68, are among the most distinctive of any Inuit artist. A new book, My Name is Arnaktauyok: The Life and Art of Germaine Arnaktauyok, combines many of those refined images with her biography. Arnaktauyok’s story includes years in residential schools, the dark subject of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada‘s final report, which is scheduled to be released on June 2. She spoke with Maclean’s from her home in Yellowknife.”
Read the full Q & A here
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by Germaine Arnaktauyok
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Germaine Arnaktauyok (1946-)
Summer Migration; Engraving
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They're here! They're here! The books from Inhabit Media arrived!!
Considering I have never before managed to get my hands on a translation of tales from the Inuit tradition made by the actual community itself I went for two collections:
Unikkaaqtuat: An Introduction to Inuit Myths and Legends, edited by Neil Christopher, Noel McDermott, and Louise Flaherty, cover art by Germaine Arnaktauyok
How Things Came to Be: Inuit Stories of Creation, by Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, illustrated by Emily Fiegenschuh
I'm very excited
#book hoard#inhabit media#inhabit books#I was worried about shipping since I'm all the way in Europe and person I emailed with was very nice#and they arrived safe and sound from all across the ocean
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By Germaine Arnaktauyok
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