Hunters of Old

Description

‘Hunters of Old’ by PARR – Inuit Art from Cape Dorset 1974 print collection available for purchase with DaVic Gallery of Native Canadian Arts.

Condition:         Very good Condition – professionally treated for mild yellowing of the paper and for removing handling marks in the paper.

Description by Artist:     No description by artist found.

Notes from DaVic Gallery:    PARR’s works compare much with Luke Anguhadluq’s works on the rawness and direct first hand representation of a nomadic life of the Inuit.  It is interesting to notice this collection of PARR images they all invoke from PARR’s memories as a hunter himself where all situations involve male hunters and animals.

In this print we see PARR’s vision of first-hand experience, as hunter himself, of two hunters hunting the some of the most preferred animals that included caribou and walrus.  These hunters are accompanied and assisted by their faithful companion, the dog.  Caribou was important for the fur that provided for great meat and the best winter protection for parkas as well as bones and antlers for tools; walrus provided for blubber for lamps and meat for dogs.  In this composition we already see hunters using rifles as hunting tools as opposed to more rudimentary tools that hunters of old would.

This print was printed on 1971 and released with the 1974 Cape Dorset print collection.

Beautiful energetic print.

The blank sheet of letter-size (8.5” x 11”) paper covering part of the image in the last picture is for size reference.