Eskimo Art Is For Kabloona

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Bell, Elizabeth
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1971
• Subjects: Art; Biographies; History; Inuit; Starvation; Baker Lake region; Nunavut; Garry Lake region; Garry; Arctic; Back River; Baker Lake; eskimo*; inuit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66180

Oonark was born in the area around Garry Lake and the Back River about 1906. She was married very young, as was customary among the traditional Eskimos, and had many children, eight of whom survived. Her husband died . (around 1952). At that time there was a famine in the Garry Lake region and Oonar...