Lot 87
PAUTA SAILA (1916-2009)
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“...these carefully balanced creatures suggest the angakoq poised between heaven and earth, ready for transformation and flight. Pauta explained that a Shamanic bear can be recognized by a short thick neck, the one remaining sign of human identity.”
from Seidelman, Harold & James Turner, The Inuit Imagination, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd. (Vancouver, BC), 1993, p. 206