Caribou carving at the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly

• Main Author: Campbell, Sandy
• Other Authors: Iyerak, Alain
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Sculpture - Polar Regions; Photographs; ᑐᒃᑐ (ikt); Tuktu - Piksauyak (qivs); Caribou - Carvings - Yellowknife; NWT; Tuktu - Piksauyaq (ikt); Public art - Legislature Building - Yellowknife; Tuttu - Pichaaq (qivu); ᓴᓇᐅᔭᖅᑐᖅ (ikt); Hanauyaqtuq - Piksauyak (ikt); Northwest Territories; Yellowknife; bowhead whale
• Online Access: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/c1b33f29-6893-4cb5-be63-7224248d72fc; https://doi.org/10.7939/R3319S369

This sculpture was created by Alain Iyerak in 1970. It is made from a single vertebra of a bowhead whale. The vertebra had to dry for 100 years to be used for carving. The carving is housed on the upper level of the NWT Legislative Assembly Building.