Drawing Item Number: 2978/25 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Brightly coloured drawing on horizontal rectangular sheet of ivory paper of a camp scene in winter. At top left is a young child wearing a one piece suit in yellow and black. Immediately below child is a woman wearing a multi-coloured amautiq. To her left and below is a bald man in a blue parka with green trousers. At the centre top of the image is a snow house with a windbreak entrance. A person wearing a pink parka appears to be bending down as if to enter the snow house. Below the snow house is a scene with animals and humans. The humans are on the left and consist of a boy dressed in a blue parka, a bald headed person with a purple amautiq, and a woman with a blue face wearing a green and yellow amautiq. The animals are a purple seal, an orange wolf/dog and a yellow bear. To the right of the animals is a woman with braids with a small child dressed in clothing on her stomach.