About the Artist

Definitions of Inuit vary slightly: "An Aboriginal people in Northern Canada, who live in Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Northern Quebec and Northern Labrador. The word means "people" in the Inuit language Inuktitut. The singular of Inuit is Inuk." Indian and Northern Affairs Canada "A member of a group of Eskimoan peoples inhabiting the Arctic from northern Alaska eastward to eastern Greenland, particularly those of Canada". Answers.com "A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')." E.Look.org Inuit sculpture is made often using stone, antler, less frequently ivory and whalebone.