MAN IN ART

A Selection of decorative, wearable objects by Inuit artists of Greenland

 

The Inuit decorated all hunting implements and utility objects as they believed it will stimulate better hunting and secure subsistence. These small figures and imaginative masks served magic purposes: they were ways of forging links between man and the spirits that rule nature. Most greenland artists use materials known from Inuit past: soapstone, bone, antler, tusk and driftwood.