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Nelson Takkiruq, Nuliajuk
Nelson Takkiruq, Nuliajuk
The artist has explained the subject of his sculpture in an interview:
“The sea spirit, Nuliajuk, is holding the head of a person. A lot of people carve Nuliajuk because there are a lot of stories about her. Sometimes she is holding a qulliq [stone lamp] or something else that women have. I like to carve something different from other people. In some carvings, Nuliajuk has a seal body or tail of a fish. But in this carving, Nuliajuk is a woman. She was a human being before she went into the water, so she has a human body with hair and an animal part, like a seal or a fish tail, as the whole body could never have changed.”
(From an interview with Darlene Wight in Taloyoak, 1996)
