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Caribou carving at the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly
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This sculpture was created by Alain Iyerak in 1970. It is made from a single vertebra of a bowhead whale. The vertebra had to dry for 100 years to be used for carving. The carving is housed on the upper level of the NWT Legislative Assembly Building.
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- Date created
- 2015-07-08
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- Tuktu - Piksauyak (qivs)
- Caribou - Carvings - Yellowknife, NWT
- Public art - Legislature Building - Yellowknife, NWT
- Tuttu - Pichaaq (qivu)
- ᑐᒃᑐ (ikt)
- Tuktu - Piksauyaq (ikt)
- ᓴᓇᐅᔭᖅᑐᖅ (ikt)
- Photographs
- Sculpture - Polar Regions
- Hanauyaqtuq - Piksauyak (ikt)
- 2015/07/08
- Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife - Legislative Assembly Buidling
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