Artist

Pootoogook, Joseph

Title

Joyfully I See Ten Caribou

Technique

stonecut

Date

1959

Dimensions

30.6cm height x 45.6cm width

Type

print

Accession Number

2013.7.1

Collection

Permanent Collection

Gift of Heidi Freya Peters

Joseph (Josephie) Pootoogook (1887-1958) was the leader of a traditional Inuit camp called Ikerasak, near Cape Dorset, Nunavut (then called the Northwest Territories). His son, Kananginak Pootoogook(1935-2010) became a master printmaker, drawer and carver. Their works incorporate many details and visual descriptions of traditional artifacts, Arctic birds and animals. Kananginak Pootoogook was also one of the early participants in the Cape Dorset print program who worked with James Houston to translate his father Joseph's drawings into print.