8" Brown Dancing Bear by Noo Atsiaq Above $1000 Winnipeg Canada Eskimo Sculpture: Selections

Winnipeg Canada Eskimo Sculpture: Selections from the Twomey Collection

It illuminates the carving and makes it very noticeable

What attracts me most about this bear is its overall size and wonderful liveliness

What attracted me to this piece was the subject

8" Brown Dancing Bear by Noo Atsiaq Above $1000 Winnipeg Canada Eskimo Sculpture: SelectionsInuit art: Dancing Bear Inuit Artist: Noo Atsiaq Size: over 8" tall, 3. 5" deep, 5" wide Community: Cape Dorset, NU Stone: Serpentine What really strikes me about Noo Atsiaq's work are that his dancing and walking bears seem to almost want to float into weightlessness on their own. They are so elegantly and gracefully carved. His contours and edges are smooth and rounded to such a finite detail that it allows the carving to achieve a certain poise,