About this Publication

As a medical doctor, Vancouver resident Harry Winrob was fascinated by bone sculpture and, from the early 1970s on, collected works in whalebone, bone, ivory and antler. The Winrob Collection, donated to the Winipeg Art Gallery as a legacy, contains the most significant assemblage of sculpture created from these materials, which due to declining availability, makes such sculptures quite rare. The Gallery calls the Winrob collection the most significant Inuit sculpture donation made to the Gallery in the last 30 years. The collection is notable for its wealth of innovative sculpture from the Nunavik communities of Puvirnituq, Inukjuak, and Kangiqsualujjuaq. Of particular interest is the number of works depicting shamanism and human-animal transformation, including works by Nick Sikkuark and Karoo Ashevat. Magnificently illustrated with full page colour plates.

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