![]() ![]() In 1992, after a disastrous fire in Baker Lake that destroyed the studio and its holdings, the Board of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-op (WBEC) in Cape Dorset transferred their archive of almost 100,000 drawings and prints to the McMichael to be preserved and made accessible through technology. Initially devised as a group of Southern experts, the Council’s role was to adjudicate and approve the choice of images for print editions produced by Inuit communities for Southern markets. Between 19 the vast majority of Inuit art disseminated throughout the world was selected through a Southern agency called the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council (CEAC). Since the late 1950s, residents of Cape Dorset and other communities have produced thousands of drawings, only a few of which were published and distributed as limited edition prints.
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