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18. The Avenging Spirit
Artist Ningiukulu Teevee
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Cape Dorset, 2014
Graphite, Coloured Pencil
30" x 44"
“This drawing is based on a Greenlandic story. A mother of a murdered son became a polar bear to avenge her son. The bear was killed to save the camp. When it was cut up, inside was a human skeleton of the mother.”
- Ningiukulu Teevee, January 2015