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Joe Talirunili

Page from a Sketchbook
“They lived like this in the Ottawa Islands during the summer. Only with their qayaqs and no rifles, the hunters were very courageous when trying to capture a very wild walrus.”

Artist

Joe Talirunili
Kuugaaluk River, Nunavik, 1893 (?) – Puvirnituq, Nunavik, 1976Active in Puvirnituq

Title

Page from a Sketchbook
“They lived like this in the Ottawa Islands during the summer. Only with their qayaqs and no rifles, the hunters were very courageous when trying to capture a very wild walrus.”

Date

About 1970

Materials

Felt pen, graphite

Dimensions

35.7 x 28.1 cm

Credits

Gift of Professor Sandra Freedman Witelson, inv. 2012.408

Collection

Graphic Arts

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