11" Walking Bear by Louie Uttaq Gjoa Haven *Mighty* Above $1000 Joe Jaw has an incredible

Joe Jaw has an incredible talent for carving bears

This stone completely did it for me

in the 1961 Cape Dorset annual print collection

The mottled green and black stone suggests the creature is covered in a mucoid slime found only in the depths of the cold sea

Ottokie prefers to carve bears

11" Walking Bear by Louie Uttaq Gjoa Haven *Mighty* Above $1000 Joe Jaw has an incredibleInuit art: Bear Inuit Artist: Louie Uttaq Size: 10. 5" long, 6. 5" High, 5" wide Community: Gjoa Haven, NU 21 Material: Mudstone id: c 111 I am fascinated with the countless ways the Inuit artists portray Bears. I have been so lucky and honoured to see hundreds of Bear carvings and all of them are striking in their own way. Carved in mudstone, from some vantage points the stone resembles a smooth and beautiful wood. Although the camera lights give the