Inuit art: Bone Drum Dancer
Inuit Artist: Billy Merkosak
Size: 16" high, 13" wide, 7" deep
Community: Pond Inlet, NU 21724
Stone: Whale Bone & Caribou bone
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Masterpiece Carving! Museum quality Sculpture!
What is the first thing that attracts you to an Inuit carvings?
Is it a response in your head, or a response from your heart?
Do you have a "visceral" or body reaction like a sudden intake of breath?
Or does your jaw drop?!!!
Bang the Bong exudes joy, excitement and a sense of honour all in that first look.
A Drum Dancer is a role that is taken very seriously by the Inuit community.
They are not only the keepers of the history of their particular Inuit community but they also dance and drum in order to COMMUNICATE the message they hold.
Do you see the devotion this Drum Dancer holds to his position and likely to his "creator"?
Billy carves some of the most spectacular modern Inuit art pieces!
Billy has found within himself, the skill and ingenuity to release emotion from a piece of whalebone.
The Inuit carvers often say that the medium (stone, bone) tells them what to carve.
I'd say Billy Merkosak was listening!
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