Manomie Shako ask Duncan if this is the same man?was born in 1917, and now resides in Cape Dorset. He describes his life through interview."I was born in a winter camp near Dorset. I used to remember how old I was but I have a poormemory and have forgotten now. I know it was around the time Cape Dorset became asettlement. I was born in an igloo. My father was Towatuga and my mother was Karalooatoo.When I was young I loved to follow my grandfather and the other men in the camp hunting. Idon't remember what it was like to hunt with spears and harpoons since most of the men hadrifles. As a boy I was afraid of whiteman because I imagined they wanted to kidnap me."When I was a teenager I started to carve..At first I used to sit and etch many ivory tusks. I latercarved stone. My family needed money for food so this is why I carved. I enjoy carving womenout of hard dark stone best. For many years I have carved. I usually carve every day. I have noother job."------------- Mannumi Shaqu (Cape Dorset)B. 1917One of the carvers selected for the original masterworks exhibition, Mannumi is also father to carvers Enook Manomie and Towatuga Sagouk of Iqaluit. His drawing style was quite representational and it is interesting to note the inclusion of the horizon line and the attempt at perspective in his work from the mid-1960s. -----------------------------------Munamee Shaqu Elder/Carver - born 1917 Tikkut  "I was the first man to ; to Iqaluit alone without anyonetelling me directions. I went overland, not by the coast. This was justafter the 2nd World War, when we lived the old way, not the way we do now.It was when it was hard to get food. We live the Kabloona way of life now.The younger generation is living life now in a way that is different frommy youth so that I'm living the white man's way through them. I was raisedby older parents, so I heard a lot of stories from them. I know many stories.I had a father-in-law one time who was a shaman, his name was Alagook.The shamans were having a meeting to ; tell the family they found a frozenman. They asked my father-in-law to take the man to his family. That manwas frozen, but a spirit was moving through that frozen body, and therewould be movement here and there in whatever part of his body, and finallythe person who was frozen spoke, revived by the spirit."-------------MANNUMI SHAQU       Born: January 7, 1917 Male E7-824 Resides: Cape Dorset; also lived in Iqaluit and Coral Harbour Sculpture  "I was born in a winter camp near Dorset. I used to remember how old I was  but I have a poor memory and have forgotten now. I know it was around the  time Cape Dorset became a settlement. I was born in an igloo. My father was  Towatuga and my mother was Karalooatoo... . When I was young I loved to  follow my grandfather and the other men in the camp hunting. I don't remember what it was like to hunt with spears and harpoons since most of the men had  rifles. As a boy I was afraid of whiteman because I imagined they wanted to  kidnap me... .   When I was a teenager I started to carve. At first I used to sit and etch  many ivory tusks. I later carved stone. My family needed money or food so  this is why I carved. I enjoy carving women out of hard dark stone best. For  many years I have carved. I usually carve every day. I have no other job."   from an interview with the artist  (date unknown)   EXHIBITIONS: 1963 Canadian Sculptors of the Arctic National Gallery of Canada  Ottawa, Ontario January - February 1963 ART ESKIMO Galerie de France  Paris, France (illustrated catalogue) December 1968 Arts and Crafts Carving Competition held in Iqaluit  Northwest Territories May - June 1969 Eskimo Sculpture '69 Robertson Galleries  Ottawa, Ontario (illustrated catalogue) 1971 - 1973 Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic  Canadian Eskimo Arts Council  Ottawa, Ontario (tour) (illustrated catalogue) October - November 1973 Sculpture Inuit 25 Years After Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec  Montreal, Quebec 1975 Sculpture from Frobisher Bay Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec  Montreal, Quebec June - July 1976 Inuit Sculpture Arctic Arts Gallery  Edmonton, Alberta August - September 1979 Cape Dorset: Recent Sculpture Gallery of the Arctic  Victoria, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue) September - October 1979 Inuit Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Power  University of Michigan Museum of Art  Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. (illustrated catalogue) November - December 1980 Sculpture from Baffin Island Pitakvik Inuit Galleries  Calgary, Alberta June 1981 Transformation The Arctic Circle  Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (illustrated brochure) October 1983 Fantasy and Stylization - Cape Dorset Sculpture  Inuit Gallery of Vancouver  Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue) February - March 1984 Canadian Inuit Art City Hall  Nuuk/Godthab, Greenland June 1984 Demons and Spirits and those who wrestled with them  The Arctic Circle  Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. May - 1985 Selections from the McMaster Art Gallery Collection  McMaster Art Gallery  Hamilton, Ontario July - August 1986 L'art et la Matiere: Peintures au sable de Claude Durand - Sculptures d'Art Esquimaux  Conseil Municipal  Le Comite d'Animation Culturelle  Deauville-Touques, France April 1988 [L'art inuit] Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai  at Palais de L'Europe, Le Touquet  France June 1988 Father and Sons Gallery Indigena  Waterloo, Ontario (illustrated catalogue) June - September 1988 Building on Strengths: New Inuit Art from the Collection  Winnipeg Art Gallery  Winnipeg, Manitoba  July 1988 [L'art inuit] Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai  at Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon  France November 1988 [L'art inuit] Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai  at Les Martres-de-Veyre  France December 1988 [L'art inuit] Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai  at Galerie des Tanneurs, Mulhouse  France February - March 1989 [L'art inuit] Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai  at St. Marcellin  France March - April 1989 [L'art inuit] Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai  at Galerie Autre Regard, Paris  France June - July 1989 Art Inuit Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai  at Galerie Sanguine, La Rochelle  France October - December 1989 Baffin Images Orca Aart  Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. January 1990 Art Inuit, la Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai  at Centre d'Action Culturelle du Bassin  Houllier, Lorrain, Saint Avold  France  February 1991 Animals of the Arctic Arctic Inuit Art  Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. November - December 1991 Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1991  Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai  at Le Colombier  Ville D'Avray, France February 1992 The Inuit Print and Sculpture 1960-1980 Westdale Gallery  Hamilton, Ontario October - November 1992 Arctic Ice: Sculptures in Marble by the Artists of Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories  Marion Scott Gallery  Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue) September - November 1993 The Bear: Sculpture Albers Gallery  San Francisco, California, U.S.A. October - November 1993 Sculpture and Graphics from Cape Dorset Art Space Gallery  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. November - December 1993 The Treasured Monument Marion Scott Gallery  Vancouver, British Columbia (illustrated catalogue) December 1993 Small Sculptures by Great Artists II Feheley Fine Arts  Toronto, Ontario March - April 1994 Wildlife and Nature in Art Arctic Experience  Hamilton, Ontario September - October 1994 Kunst van de Inuit Eskimo's Gemeentelijk Kunstcentrum  Huis Hellemans  Edegem, Belgium (illustrated brochure) November - December 1994 Small Sculptures by Great Artists III Feheley Fine Arts  Toronto, Ontario March - July 1995 Opening Show Geronimo's Studio  Munich, Germany July 1995 Sunakutagnuvalautut: Things from the Past  Feheley Fine Art  Toronto, Ontario SOLO EXHIBITIONS: May - June 1971 Carvings by Manomee Canadian Guild of Crafts  (The Guild Shop), Toronto  Toronto, Ontario 1977 Sculpture by Manomee "A" Arctic Arts  Edmonton, Alberta (illustrated catalogue) COLLECTIONS: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario  Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec  Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec  Dow Chemical, Sarnia, Ontario  Gordon Richardson Education Centre, Iqaluit, Northwest Territories  Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario  McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario  McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario  Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories  University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.  Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba  HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS: 1971 Commissioned to make a sculpture for the Gordon Robertson Education Centre in Iqaluit. 1974 Appeared in the film "The White Dawn." SELECTED REFERENCES: Canada. Dept. of Northern Affairs and National R. CANADIAN ESKIMO ART. Ottawa: Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, 1955. Canadian Arctic Producers  CAPE DORSET: Recent Sculpture. Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Producers Cooperative Limited, 1979. Canadian Eskimo Arts Council  SCULPTURE/INUIT: Sculpture of the Inuit: masterworks of the Canadian Arctic = La sculpture chez les Inuit: chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Arctique canadien. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. London: Aidan Ellis Publishing, 1971. Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec  CANADIAN GUILD OF CRAFTS QUEBEC. = GUILDE CANADIENNE DES METIERS D'ART QUEBEC: The Permanent Collection: Inuit Arts and Crafts, c. 1900-1980. Montreal: Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, 1980. Inuit Gallery of Vancouver  CAPE DORSET SCULPTURE: Fantasy & Stylization. Vancouver: Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, 1983. Jackson, Marion E.  INUIT SCULPTURE FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. EUGENE B. POWER. Ann Arbor, Michigan : The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1979. Marion Scott Gallery  ARCTIC ICE: SCULPTURES IN MARBLE BY THE ARTISTS OF CAPE DORSET, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES. Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery, 1992. Marion Scott Gallery  THE TREASURED MONUMENT: An Exhibition of Small-scale Inuit Sculpture. Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery, 1993. Riley, Jerry  SIX CAPE DORSET ELDERS. Inuit Art Quarterly: Vol. 8, No.1, Spring 1993, pp. 27-33. Ritchie, Carson I.A.  THE ESKIMO AND HIS ART. Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1974. [London and New York, 1975]. Shaqu, Mannumi  FATHER AND SONS: [An exhibition by Mannumi Shaqu, Enook Manomie and Towatuga Sagouk.]. Kitchener: Gallery Indigena, 1988. 

Exhibitions

• Animals of the Arctic, Arctic Inuit Art
• Arctic Ice: Sculptures in Marble by the Artists of Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories, Marion Scott Gallery
• ART ESKIMO, Galerie de France
• Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Sanguine, La Rochelle
• Art Inuit, la Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Centre d'Action Culturelle du Bassin Houllier, Lorrain, Saint Avold
• Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1991, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Le Colombier
• Arts and Crafts Carving Competition, held in Iqaluit
• Baffin Images, Orca Aart
• Building on Strengths: New Inuit Art from the Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Canadian Inuit Art, Sponsored by Canadian Arctic Producers at City Hall
• Canadian Sculptors of the Arctic, National Gallery of Canada
• Cape Dorset: Recent Sculpture, Gallery of the Arctic
• Carvings by Manomee, Canadian Guild of Crafts (The Guild Shop), Toronto
• Demons and Spirits and those who wrestled with them, The Arctic Circle
• Eskimo Sculpture '69, Robertson Galleries
• Fantasy and Stylization - Cape Dorset Sculpture, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
• Father and Sons, Gallery Indigena
• Images from the Arctic, Galerie D'Art Vincent
• Inuit Sculpture, Arctic Arts Gallery
• Inuit Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Power, University of Michigan Museum of Art
• Kunst van de Inuit Eskimo's, Gemeentelijk Kunstcentrum Huis Hellemans
• L'art et la Matiere: Peintures au sable de Claude Durand - Sculptures d'Art Esquimaux, Conseil Municipal Le Comite d'Animation Culturelle
• Opening Show, Geronimo's Studio
• Sculpture and Graphics from Cape Dorset, Art Space Gallery
• Sculpture by Manomee "A", Arctic Arts
• Sculpture from Baffin Island, Pitakvik Inuit Galleries
• Sculpture from Frobisher Bay, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• Sculpture Inuit 25 Years After, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
• Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic, Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
• Selections from the McMaster Art Gallery Collection, McMaster Art Gallery
• Small Sculptures by Great Artists II, Feheley Fine Arts
• Small Sculptures by Great Artists III, Feheley Fine Arts
• Sunakutagnuvalautut: Things from the Past, Feheley Fine Arts
• The Bear: Sculpture, Albers Gallery
• The Inuit Print and Sculpture 1960-1980, Westdale Gallery
• The Treasured Monument, Marion Scott Gallery
• Transformation, The Arctic Circle
• Wildlife and Nature in Art, Arctic Experience
• [L'art inuit], Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon
• [L'art inuit], Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie des Tanneurs, Mulhouse
• [L'art inuit], Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Les Martres-de-Veyre
• [L'art inuit], Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Autre Regard, Paris
• [L'art inuit], Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at St. Marcellin
• [L'art inuit], Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Palais de L'Europe, Le Touquet

Collections

• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal
• Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull
• Dow Chemical, Sarnia
• Gordon Richardson Education Centre, Iqaluit
• Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton
• McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
• Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife
• University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg