10" Dancing Bear by Qavavau Ashoona *Glade*Inuit Art: Dancing Bear Inuit Artist: Qavavau Ashoona Size: 10" across, (8. 5" Vertical), 6" wide, 5" deep Community: Cape Dorset, NU 2 24 Stone: Serpentine id: dfa 7725Qafjjy **This Item is Eligible for our 0% Interest Layaway Plan Magnificent Movement! You immediately feel a peacefulness enter your body when you first see the "perfect" Dancing bear. Glade's velvet green gold colour and magnificent posture transmits this energy. I particularly love

Allan has carved a perfect diving bear

Allan always finds the most mesmerizing stone from which to carve his popular bears

Nuna has bestowed upon this mountain of a bear

Jimmy Iqaluq is a legend

1992 Sculpture Inuit

TRANSFORMATION IN FLIGHT

drum dancers and hunters

His family then moved to Naujaat to be with his grandmother

My last two Adla running bears (this one and the 19” black bear on page 2) are two of the most spectacular sculptures I have seen as a curator of 12 years

clean and fresh

innocent yet worldly

Tuk Nuna is just as famous for his depiction of dancing bear as is the likes of other greats like Nuna Parr and Joe Kavik