3" Acrobatic Dancing Bear by Adamie MathewsieInuit art: Dancing Bear Inuit Artist: Adamie Mathewsie Size: 3" tall, 2. 5" wide Community: Cape Dorset, NU Stone: Serpentine id: dfa 6690Najjy I am always amazed by the athletic ability of the Small Dancing Bear. It takes years of training and innate talent for an Inuit carver to create a dancing bear that can balance on one, two, and sometimes THREE different paws. When the dancing bear is small, the level of expertise required is astounding. Our

Size: 14" tall

The brilliance of this Owl

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The result is a composition that is not only charged with meaning

That means that this bear not only symbolizes a certain style of carving

Sea Goddess is a rare and perhaps slightly controversial beauty

The style of loons he makes

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He would like to continue to carve and is not anxious to find another line of work

at the Rathaus Foyer

and was featured in a major article in the Canadian arts magazine-“Galleries West” and the Canadian governmental tourism magazine –“Pure Canada”

The spirituality and originality of this piece is what captured my attention