Arctic Art Sales - Inuit soapstone sculptures from Baffin Island

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take advantage of their naturally occurring shapes to produce a seemingly endless variety of forms and subjects.

Materials are often in short supply, and artists must travel great distances over land or by boat to quarry quantities of good quality stone.
Once the materials are obtained, carving proceeds in a fairly straightforward manner. The necessary skills, perfected in fashioning of traditional implements, have been passed through generations of Inuit. Most sculptures are still produced with hand tools, although a grow-
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