4" Dancing Bear by Ottokie Samayualie paintings

4" Dancing Bear by Ottokie Samayualie paintingsInuit art: Dancing Bear Inuit Artist: Ottokie Samayualie Size: 4" tall, 3" wide Community: Cape Dorset, NU Stone: Serpentine id: dfa AL60370afjy Have you noticed that Small Dancing Bears have a joie de vivre that is contagious? When they dance (balanced on one or two or even three different paws), their life force is charged with an energy that is happy and joyous! They havent a care in the world. Its one of the reasons we love small bears so much.

This is an exquisite rendition of the famous Canadian Snowy Owl

This is one of the nicest pieces I have ever seen

Cat man trails behind but in true feline fashion

Dorset ID#: 89-30

Dorset ID#: 83-L09

Gallery 111

Joanassie began carving at the age of twenty

the beautiful veins riding against the skin

Perhaps to fish or hunt seal

1979 Exhibition and Sale of Musk-Oxen & Bears

The bravado and depth of these pieces are like nothing I have seen before

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