Cloaked Figures and Faces and Animal: Mary Ayaq Anowtalik Colored Pencil Drawing turned wood cylinder box Quite a cast of characters

Quite a cast of characters (caricatures) and situations represented --my favorite being a man with pointy beard holding "bettrave triumphant" (triumphant beet

as if a study for a medal to be cast in bronze

very beautifully executed exercise in using a compass

The front of the postcard is signed with what looks to read R

There is some variation in the size and shape of the "balls"--a couple of then more ovular than round--and it seems that a couple of the shelves or walls separating them might have been repaired at some point (it's hard to tell--one can see cuts along the walls on the middle ones

Cloaked Figures and Faces and Animal: Mary Ayaq Anowtalik Colored Pencil Drawing turned wood cylinder box Quite a cast of charactersLove. This is a colored pencil drawing by Mary Ayaq Anowtalik (born 1938; Inuk, based in Arviat, Nunavut, Canada), best known for her stone sculptures she began carving in the 1950s as well as, especially more recently, her drawings. This drawing bears a strong relationship to her sculptures, which she has described as representing the closeness of Inuit family and relatives, and specifically portraying "the intimacy of our former life at Ennadia