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Summer Parka3499/1

Summer weight amauti style parka. Made of white cotton with yarn decorations. Thick red and blue, braided tassel, pinned to form scallops, hangs below neck opening. Large red panel covers torso. Decorated with two vertical rectangles, filled with “X” shapes. Motifs done in yellow, white, light blue, and black sparkly ribbons. Green and yellow fringe hangs from bottom edge. Top and bottom edges of sleeves are bordered with embroidered bands. Decorated with multi-coloured “X” and “O” shapes, and geometric motifs. Band along top is dark red, bottom band is white. Extending down from the top band, covering the upper arm, are long strands of multi-coloured fringe. Parka has flaps along the front and back bottom edges; the back one longer than the front. Both are trimmed with bands made up of dark blue, light blue and green diagonal lines. White fringe hangs from edges of both flaps. The hood is decorated with pink, red and blue fringe along the edges. Fringe extends from a multi-coloured embroidered band, made up of linear and geometric motifs. Edges of hood opening are trimmed with dark green bands with birds and floral motifs embroidered across them. Pouch, accessible from interior, bulges out from the back of the parka. Two bunches of multi-coloured fringe hang from bottom edge. Parka is unlined.

Culture
Inuit
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre, plastic and dye
Made in
Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada and Qamanittuaq, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing2978/16

Drawing on horizontal rectangular sheet of ivory paper of two people, a winged creature, and a human/bird figure. The image is arranged in two rows. The upper, larger row is of a woman in a yellow amautiq running from a purple winged creature with an extra head on each wing. To the right, a man is attacking the creature. He holds a spear in his left hand and a knife in his right hand. The lower row consists of a human/bird figure and a bird-like creature. The human/bird figure is to the left and has a round head, bird claws for hands and human feet. It is wearing an orange and blue striped parka with a blue bird head on it and purple trousers. To the right is a long bird creature drawn in orange with a blue wing and large blue teeth. Pencil on reverse includes artist and date.

Culture
Inuit
Made in
Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada and Qamanittuaq, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drawing2913/10

Drawing depicting a female figure holding an ulu. She is walking toward left, and is wearing a black coat over purple pants and yellow boots. The coat's hood is over her head, and the coat has two wing-like extensions from the back. A green and purple bird are drawn on her coat. Her mouth is open and she is looking down at the ulu. A mythical creature at the right is purple with a large human head, with a two-pronged appendage at left and a claw-like appendage at right.

Culture
Inuit
Made in
Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada and Qamanittuaq, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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The Dying Man Becomes a WolfNa1476

In the upper left portion, there is a sideways brown outlined grey caribou with a sideways green outlined grey wolf below in the lower left portion next to a human in yellow in a brown outlined green coffin. In the upper right portion, there are brown syllabics witha human below in the lower right portion. The human has red spurting out of the mouth and is wearing blue clothing. In the lower left corner, there is a small yellow image of a right pointing arrow emerging from a bulge pointing to pencilled syllabic. Pencil inscription across the bottom edge reads 'The Dying Man becomes a Wolf 27/50 1971' and has a signature. In the lower right corner, there is a circular embossing. The print is on vertically rectangular off-white paper.

Culture
Inuit
Made in
Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada and Qamanittuaq, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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