Description

Drawing on horizontally rectangular sheet of black paper. Imagery represents the Legend of Two-Headed Dog. Image can be divided into four areas: a right-hand column, an upper row, a central scene and a scene in the lower left corner. The right side column consists of five snow houses. All have entrances facing left. In the bottom house all the people have red heads. There are six people asleep on the sleeping platform, two in one bag, one in his own bag, and three in another bag. Above this house is a sled. In the house above all the people have mauve heads. There are four of them sleeping on the sleeping platform - one in a green bag, two in a green bag and one in a purple bag. Above this house is a sled. In the next house, three of the people have yellow heads and one has a mauve head. The one with the mauve head is in a brown bag, one of the others has his/her own bag. The other two share a bag. A sled rests at an angle above this house. In the next house, all the people have red heads. Two share one bag and two share another bag. A sled is sitting on the ground above this house. The next house is the uppermost house and forms the beginning of the upper row of images. A man is kneeling beside this house preparing his sled. The same man is shown crawling out of the house. To the left we see four versions of the man as he moves with his bow and arrows. The central scene shows a man wearing a parka sitting on a two-headed dog. He is controlling each dog with a harness around its neck. A man is kneeling to the left aiming his bow and arrow at the two-headed creature. In the scene at the bottom left there is a small circular body of water into which the man and the dog are diving. Inuit syllabics are handwritten along the upper right edge.