13" SIGNATURE Bird Spirit by Toonoo Sharky *Crash Landing*Inuit art: Bird Spirit Inuit Artist: Toonoo Sharky Size: 13" tall, 8" wide, 4" deep Community: Cape Dorset, NU 20 Stone: Serpentine id: b cejjy **Item is Eligible for our Layaway Plan **Toonoo Sharky SIGNATURE Bird carving Masterpiece Sculpture! Museum Quality Piece! Toonoo Sharky is a major carving talent in the Inuit art world. His reputation is international. His sculptures are immediately recognizable as a "Toonoo" piece. This precocious talent

1997 Stone & Bonde

His grotesque face is elongated and with its large flared nostrils

the balance and the choice of the deep dark serpentine stone

Every community is allotted a specific number of narwhals for hunting for food

Who is the unabashed and unencumbered person in your life

This is a sheer Masterpiece

What I Love about this bear are its masterful proportions and its exquisite pale green freckled stone

especially to someone who is new to Inuit art because this sculpture has such universal appeal

I have a long waiting list of collectors anxious to add a muskox to their collection from notable carvers which includes Joamie Ipeelee

Size: 10" across

Her art is also in the WAG and in Canada's National Art Museum

Nasogaluak was Walker's auction featured artist for their annual Inuit art auction being held this month