7" Shaman Face by Charlie Ookpik Gjoa Haven *All the Better to Hear You With* Above $1000 dancing and singing is the

dancing and singing is the manner in which each of the First Nations communicates its own myths

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Have you ever seen such radiant green stone

It reminds me of  a Spanish Bull fight

two bears are wrestling in order to establish dominance

7" Shaman Face by Charlie Ookpik Gjoa Haven *All the Better to Hear You With* Above $1000 dancing and singing is theInuit art: Shaman Face Inuit Artist: Charlie Ookpik Size: 6. 5" high, 4" wide, w" deep Community: Gjoa Haven Stone: Serpentinite id: c 052 I can't recall having seen an Inuit sculpture with such outstanding ears. Why would Ookpik focus the viewer on the ear? Symbolically, the ears are considered the seat of memory, receptivity, inquisitiveness and awakening. Our Shaman uses his ears as a "channel of interpretation". With his ears he is able to hear