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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 10328920, member: 301&quot;]instant collection....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a good story , but as we all know , it&#039;s the items themselves that will speak to their history.</p><p>The 50&#039;s would have been a very young time for Inuit art work.</p><p>Alaskan work is very different from Canadian Inuit work.</p><p>Buying directly from a carver , you may expect to see his name....but not so much numbers , which were used more when a piece entered the system , once the carvings were sold to the Co-op , or dealer who sent the carvings South.</p><p>Also , amassing a large collection of stone carvings , and having to travel with them in remote communities ....... would , at best....not have been easy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Different communities used different stone .... so some will point to where they came from.</p><p>If you would throw up a few more random photo&#039;s with marks on them, I may be able to comment further.</p><p>&amp; as we all know , sometimes a collection passed from a mother who knows to a daughter who doesn&#039;t..... can include items that came from elsewhere..!</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you have any idea.... where up North , as villages were spread out.. far apart !</p><p>and any idea why the mother was up there??</p><p><br /></p><p>I know pal, a lot to ask , but you know me..... Help us, to help you!!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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