Magnetic North – Lifestyle / Daily Life
Sir William Edward Parry, 1790-1855
Illustrated by Captain Lyon
Interior of an Eskimaux snow-hut, Winter Island, 1822
From: Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla.
London: John Murray, 1824
Toronto Public Library
Annie Pootoogook is part of the recent generation of artists depicting contemporary life in the North. Country food like seal and whale tail is cut with an ulu and eaten on the ground, but in this case, it happens in a home with many ‘mod cons’. This work sits in contrast to a journal from 1822 illustrating the interior of an igloo. The ulu however, is also present.
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Annie Pootoogook
Eating Seal Meat, 2007
Coloured pencil on paper
Collection of TD Bank Group