Description
This Winged Bird by Lucassie Etungat from Iqaluit is another example of Lucassie’s talents. Like other carvings of Etungat that we have been able to acquire, this one too came from a private collector who purchased the carvings around 2014, directly from the carver. A treasure.
Info Lucassie Etungat
Lucassie Etungat
Born: Lucassie Etungat
April 15, 1951, Pangnirtung, Nunavut
Settlement: Frobisher Bay / Iqaluit
(1951) — E6-622
Disappeared: June 29, 2016 (aged 65)
Iqaluit, Nunavut
Status: Missing for 6 years, 10 months and 28 days
Nationality Inuit
Occupation Sculptor
Known for Having his art held at several museums
Exhibitions
3rd Salon Printemps
presented by Galerie Saint Merri
Art Inuit
Galerie Saint Merri
Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Akenaton
Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Maite Aubert
Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Montador
Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Chapelle de la Visitation
Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Palais de l’Europe
Art Inuit, l’Art des Esquimaux du Canada
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Maison Falleur, Cambrai
Bears in Sculpture
Theo Waddington Inc.
Eskimo Sculpture
Winnipeg Art Gallery presented at the Manitoba Legislative Building
Glaciopolis: Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Maison de Pesey
Sculpture and Graphics from Cape Dorset
Art Space Gallery
Publications
MOTHER
Author: Gallery Indigena
Publication: Kitchener, Ontario: Gallery Indigena (1987)
His work is held at several museums, including the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Montana Museum of Art and Culture.
Etungat was last seen on June 29, 2016, and was reported missing on September 1, 2016.[At the time, he had been living in Iqaluit.
In July 2018, two fishermen found Etungat’s identification card and jacket on Long Island in Koojesse Inlet A 2019 article reported that the RCMP believe that he died in hunting mishap, but this is unconfirmed.
