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Agnes Nanogak Goose

Worshipping the Rising Sun

Artist

Agnes Nanogak Goose
Utkraluk (Baillie Island), Northwest Territories, 1925 – Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, 2001Active in Ulukhaktok

Title

Worshipping the Rising Sun

Date

1972

Materials

Stonecut, 46/50

Dimensions

45.6 x 60.7 cm

Publisher

Printmaker: Joseph Kitekudlak (born in 1945)

Credits

Purchase, William Gilman Cheney Bequest, inv. Gr.1972.35

Collection

Graphic Arts

Alongside those of the drum dance and throat singing, Inuit music has a wealth of songs designed to accompany games. As in throat singing, they were often sung by two people in a spirit of competition, and not only by children, as can be seen by this depiction of a juggling game by Agnes Nanogak Goose: a song determined its length, which was variable, and the first person to let a ball drop lost.

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