Inuit art: Full Skull Muskox
Inuit Artist: N/A
Size: 28" wide, 20" deep, 10" tall
Community: Ulukhatok, Gjoa Haven 2020
Material: musk ox horn and skull
id: c-
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Provenance 2020 - I was contacted by a gentleman who had worked for the Canadian Government in Gjoa Haven 2015-2019. His role was to oversee the preservation of the Franklin Expedition Ships.
His goal was to return to the Canadian South to retire. He wanted to open an Inuit Art Gallery focusing on the carvings, and artefacts of Gjoa Haven. He attested that this majestic Muskox bone artefact was from an animal that had a natural death.
RETURN TO THE GROUND is the earthly remains of what was once a magnificent beast, the Arctic Muskox.
This muskox died from natural causes.
Even a large mammal like a muskox, can be brought down by a wolf.
The preservation and completeness of Return touches the heart.
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Muskoxen are covered with an under layer of short fine wool of exceptional warmth (qiviut), except for the horns, hooves, lips and nose. The longer outer coat of shaggy hair covering the animal is about a half-metre long and often hangs almost to the ground.
It gives the muskox its characteristic appearance.
The coat is generally dark brown or almost black.
It is extremely shaggy on the shoulders and forms a distinct mane, especially noticeable on bulls.
Behind the shoulders is a short white or creamy yellow "saddle".
The lower legs have light brown to white "stockings"
The muskox's inner wool, or ‘qiviut’, is of exceptional quality, with the weight and warmth of cashmere.
Muskoxen are very social animals. They live in loosely organized herds of about 15 animals, or sometimes larger.
Muskoxen crossed into Northern America about 90,000 years ago when the Bering Strait was dry land.
When the last glacier covered North America, muskoxen survived in ice-free areas or ‘glacial refugia’ in the northern Arctic islands and Greenland.
As the ice retreated, muskox spread throughout northern Canada and Greenland before moving westward into Alaska.
Today, muskoxen in the Northwest Territories (NWT) are found on Banks, Eglinton, Melville and Victoria Islands and on the mainland from the Arctic coast southwest to Artillery Lake.
