The one that will probably get away

We found a good selection of Inuit (and some other First Nation) art in a gallery in Old Town, Montreal today and were very taken with this fish, not very well illustrated. From Cape Dorset, and not quite a fish, rather a shaman transforming to or from a fishy state.

Priced at $9,000 and we did not ask what some of the larger and more complicated pieces went for. But I am grateful to NJ for letting me take a picture of this one.

Very much a growth industry, with the Inuit not having made pieces of this size and sophistication for all that long. But they have been very busy since the early 1950's.

Reference 1: http://www.imagesboreales.com/. They have better images there, but I was not able to find the fish, at least not in the time I gave it.