8" Dancing Bear by Tony Oqutaq Below $1000 id: ndc-208268976bjjjy

id: ndc-208268976bjjjy

Dorset ID#: 01-01

this blade has meant the difference between life and death In the austere environment of the Arctic

and a hide that is rippled like the ocean floor

I like my life

8" Dancing Bear by Tony Oqutaq Below $1000 id: ndc-208268976bjjjyInuit art: Dancing Bear Inuit Artist: Tony Oqutaq Size: 8" high, 3" wide Community: Cape Dorset, NU Stone: Serpentine id: jl 18477fejy This brilliant dark stone gives this piece prominence and bravado. Oqutaq's love of the animal shines through both in his art and his words. Rather than carving realistic replicas of bears, this artist chooses to capture the animal's essence; its bearlike character. Oqutaqs bears almost always stand or 'dance' on one