Owl Cape Dorset_2020 Dene people create items from

Dene people create items from moose hide using skills handed down for countless generations in the Liard and Mackenzie Valleys

Enookie was among the first printmakers to take up the art after it was introduced in Pangnirtung in the early 1970s

colour and composition of the image as it will be expressed in wool fibre

Cape Dorset 2016 Annual Print Collection

5" wide x 4

Owl Cape Dorset_2020 Dene people create items fromA carved owl standing on one foot with upraised notched wings Serpentine stone Approx. 5 x 18 x 24 cm Reg no. 1271151 Palaya learned to carve in the traditional way, by watching his father. His first two pieces, carved at age 12, were a bird and a bear. However, it was only as a 17 year old that he started carving seriously. He now supports his family through carving. He enjoys carving and has been doing it for some 20 years. Although Palaya views