Small stone sculpture of mother and baby. Woman is seated with one leg bent beneath her, the other stretched in front. She wears a large parka with hood draped around her neck and shoulders. In her arms she holds a nursing child, its legs extended over her bent leg. The mother’s facial features and ears are defined, as are her hands which are placed on the child’s back.

Walrus-shaped, almost flat but slightly concave piece of hollowed tusk. Overall the piece takes the outline of a walrus head with wide open mouth and protruding tusk, narrowing toward the rounded opposite end. Interior is concave and undecorated. Exterior is etched with a scene in which a sled pulled by 5 trotting dogs carries two people along with their packages. An igloo stands in the background to the right. The walrus’s whisker follicles and eye are also etched in. The etchings are filled with a dark paint or ink substance to make them more visible.

Carving of a man and dog, on a stand (part a). Male figure (part b) is carved of tusk and stands with arms stretched in front of him. He wears a parka and leggings decorated with black paint around hem, hood, and wrists. Boots and mittens are also black. Facing him is a large dog (part c), white but for its black nose, eyes, mouth and claws. Dog has a thick tail that curves to rest on his back. Both figures have two wooden pegs in their feet that connect them to holes in the stand, which is a long rectangle of smoothed brown stone.

Carved stone seal. Stylized creature lays on its belly on a small attached platform carved tight to the animal’s shape. Body is tubular, slightly smaller at back. Fore flippers are held close to sides, with hind flippers undefined. Eyes are large and round with a circle of light brown at the edge. Nostrils are flared and mouth is partially open.

Carved basalt fish with stand. Long, sleek char-like fish is carved with particular attention to fins, including protruding dorsal and adipose at top, caudal at back, and anal, pelvic and pectoral at bottom. All are carved with delicate horizontal lines. Gills are shown just behind the face. Fish is attached to a thick rectangular base of the same stone by two short wooden posts.

Carved black stone walrus. Animal lays on belly, with front flippers supporting the raised head and neck. Face is turned to the side and has carved neck wrinkles, as well as eyes, nostrils, mouth and whisker follicles on the face. Two ivory tusks emerge from the mouth (one of which is removable--part ‘b’). Into the animal’s back is carved a shallow ashtray with four half circle hollows around the edge.

Whale bone figure. A woman stands on a small, irregularly shaped platform, wearing a parka that gathers at the waist and falls to the knees, slightly longer on the back hem. The hood is up over her head and her round face has carved nose, eyes and mouth in a downcast expression. Arms are held down and slightly away from her sides. The edge of the parka at hood, wrists, and bottom hem have an encircling, incised line for decoration.

Print, with accompanying booklet (part b). Print is monochromatic, black ink on white paper, showing elements from the lives of Inuit people. The small drawings include boats, kayaks, animals, birds, fish, whales, igloos, houses, tools and weapons. The soft-cover booklet explains each of the elements pictured in the print, in English, and includes names in Inuktitut.

Dog whip. Used with sled dogs, the whip has a wood handle with curved grip and three faceted sections each showing a different animal. Bottom section has an incised wolf or dog on either side; central section has a seal; and third shows a fish. All are filled with grey paint. Top side of facets have a green diamond, red arrow, and a red hook carved into them. Carved squares between the sections are painted red. The whip is attached to the end of the handle through holes in the wood. It is made of looped strands of black and brown leather woven to create a hard but flexible cord that diminishes in diameter toward the tip.

Large stone oil lamp. The piece is carved from stone, a half-circle in its top view. Surface is convex with slanted sides forming a shallow trough, a deep crease running lengthwise along the bottom from which stands a thick, angled rim. A groove for a wick sits at centre of rim. The opposite, curved, edge has a low lip to contain the lamp’s oil. The exterior bottom is rounded with a sharp point at middle. Hardened deposits remain on top and bottom surfaces. The lamp has been broken in two and repaired.