7" Shaman Face by Charlie Ookpik Gjoa Haven *All the Better to Hear You With* Above $1000 Have you ever seen such

Have you ever seen such radiant green stone

This is probably the nicest piece in our gallery today

Inuit Artist: Markoosie Papigatook

dancing and singing is the manner in which each of the First Nations communicates its own myths

7" Shaman Face by Charlie Ookpik Gjoa Haven *All the Better to Hear You With* Above $1000 Have you ever seen suchInuit art: Shaman Face Inuit Artist: Charlie Ookpik Size: 6. 5" high, 4" wide, w" deep Community: Gjoa Haven Stone: Serpentinite id: c 052 I can't recall having seen an Inuit sculpture with such outstanding ears. Why would Ookpik focus the viewer on the ear? Symbolically, the ears are considered the seat of memory, receptivity, inquisitiveness and awakening. Our Shaman uses his ears as a "channel of interpretation". With his ears he is able to hear