Caribou carving at the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Campbell, Sandy

• 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.

• Date created

  2015-07-08

• Subjects / Keywords

  • 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

• Type of Item

  Image

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3319S369

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International