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A human figure with huge feet next to a creature with a face and a weird body. Figures presented in a two-dimensional style and using grey.

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Pootoogook

Imaginary scene depicting a large dog

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Pootoogook

Imaginary scene depicting two large sea creatures with strange mouthes and a little sea creature on the bottom left side of the page. Creatures presented in a two-dimensional style and using grey.

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Pootoogook

Imaginary scene depicting two birds standing in the top corners of the page and two sea creatures with six arm and three tails surrounding a seal in the middle of the page. Creature presented in a two-dimensional style and using grey.

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Pootoogook

Scene depicting a group of six dogs eating. Two human figures are also present

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Pootoogook

Three imaginary fish-like creatures with multiple fins and standing on legs that look like fish tails

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Pootoogook

Imaginary scene depicting three birds looking at each other. The bird on the right side of the page is holding something in a hand and pointing it at one of the other birds. Figures presented in a two-dimensional style and using grey.

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Pootoogook

Imaginary scene depicting an imaginary creature with strange arms

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Pootoogook

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Pootoogook

Scene depicting two stylized humans figures on either side of a third human-like figure with raised arms and large horns coming out the side of its head. An imaginary creature with alarge face on its body stands on the arms of the central figure inbetween its horns. Figures presented in a two-dimensional style and using grey.

Winged Creature With Spirit

Joe Jaw

Imaginary Scene depicting two mythical winged creatures with sharp claws and many larger horns. Figures presented in a two-dimensional style and using grey.

Two Creatures

Joe Jaw

Scene depicting depicitng a view a women inside an igloo facing a mythical creature and three human figures outside of the igloo are walking away from the igloo to the left side of the page. Scene presented in a two-dimensional style and using grey.

Evil Spirit in the Igloo

Joe Jaw

Two imaginary dogs wearing traditional Inuit clothing. Scene presented in a two-dimensional style and using grey.

Wolf People

Joe Jaw

Scene depicting five imaginary creatures: three stylized birds

Drawing for print Man Calling to Birds

Sheelaky

Four women wearing amautik sitting on a rug with some objects in the bottom left of the page. Presented in a flattened

Drawing for print Memories of Childbirth

Pitseolak Ashoona

Scene depicting fourteen people on a sailboat

Drawing for print Eskimos on Sealskin Boat

Pitseolak Ashoona

Imaginary landscape containing seven inuksuit scattered across the image and five human figures wearing all white are walking on various ground places across the foreground and facing the long waterway in the middle of the page. Two more human figures are also visible standing in the hilly background. Presented in a flattened vertical perspective style and using blue

Drawing for print The River at Netsiilik

Pitseolak Ashoona

A short thick person holding a stick on the left side and one tall thick person wearing an amautik while holding a baby on their back and holding an ulu on the right side of the page. They are depicted in a flat

Drawing for print Mother and Son

Natsivaar

Two humans with wings beside an abstract moon-like circle. They are depicted in a flat

Drawing for print Angels in the Moon

Natsivaar

Three sea creatures with human heads and arms

Transformed Creatures

Natsivaar

A group of creatures are all facing to the right while only one of them is facing to the left

Walrus With Cane and Other Imaginary Creatures

Natsivaar

A group of six imaginary creaturesand human figures including a man jugging four rocks

Drawing for print In the Night Sky

Three birds with long necks

Birds With Antlers

Two similar imaginary creatures with different accessories like antlers

Sea Goddess and Beast

Sheouak Petaulassie

Three seal-like creatures drawn like puzzle pieces

Sea Animals

Sheouak Petaulassie

One owl-like creature

Birds

Sheouak Petaulassie

Repeating design of eight imaginary wolves on the left side and two wolf-like animals on the right separated by curved rectangles. Presented in a two-dimensional style and using grey.

Drawing for print Reflections in My Mind

Sheouak Petaulassie

Symmetrical design of an abstract bird-like creature with six claws on each side. Presented in a two-dimensional style and using grey.

Abstract With Heads

Sheouak Petaulassie

A human figure on the left facing a dog seated on the right. Presented in a two-dimensional style and using grey.

Drawing for print Conversation With Foxes

Sheouak Petaulassie

Ten imaginary creatures with various animal features. Presented in a two-dimensional style and using grey.

Drawing for print Pot Spirits

Sheouak Petaulassie