CYBIS INUIT MOTHER "ALEA" - Chosen as Canadas Wedding Gift to Charles & Diana

PLEASE READ - Information taken from Cybis Website - This is a large heavy sculpture. Approx. 11 inches tall. Eskimo Mother ‘Alea’ was released in 1973 as an edition of 350 sculptures with a price of $1875. The edition was later reduced to only 200 and closed in Fall 1980 or Spring 1981 at a price of $2500. It stands 11” tall and was designed by Helen Granger Young, who also created most of the North American Indians series. The sculpture is based on the Inuit legend of a woman who, while walking along the shore one day, discovered a baby polar bear. She took the baby bear home, named him Kunik, and raised him tenderly. In order to protect him from hunters by identifying him as a pet, she wove a plaited sealskin collar which can be seen on the pup that Alea holds. This piece was later selected by Canada to be their official royal wedding gift to Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1981, and also by President Ford as a gift of state to Premier Brezhnev. One was also presented, along with the two Eskimo child busts Amouleegah and Ahmah, to the Gerald Ford White House in 1975. This is a large Sculpture and just stunning in real It is #147.