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Message:: [QUOTE="Mark London, post: 11604407, member: 346"]Sorry for my late arrival to the party...I tend to visit less often these days. As previously discussed, the © is a copyright symbol and the 1974 is the date. The 5-19149 (or5-14149) is an inventory number rather than a disc number and, as such, is of little use in identifying the artist. There seems to be 2 distinct words in syllabics each with 2 letters (unless there is more information hidden under the igloo label). If I remeber correctly, the #2 on the Igloo Tag indicates that the origin of the sculpture is Nunavik (Arctic Quebec). The two words transcribe as Na Si and Ah Ni. The Ah Ni is most likely Annie, an all too common given name (there are 101 Annies on Katilvik). I think that the Na Si refers to the subject rather than the artist. The Inuktitut word for seal is nattiq often spelled phonetically as either netsik or natsik. The sculpture is lovely but I'm not sure that it will be possible to narrow it down further unless you go through Katilvik and eliminate all the Annies who are not from Nunavik and then try to do a deep dive to find examples of the remaining Annies works for comparison. While the extensive research required will increase your knowledge of the the piece, it will not effect value.[/QUOTE]