For generations, Inuit artists have made carvings and drawings of the birds, beasts, and fishes with whom they share the frozen Arctic environment. In the Inuit imagination, these animals – walruses, seals, polar bears, Arctic owls and others – often assumed heroic proportions and from these developed a unique Inuit folklore based on the fantastic deeds of these legendary creatures.
Today, collectors everywhere prize Inuit art. The designs appearing on inunoo products are reproduced exclusively by Inunoo & Associates on a royalty basis under license from Dorset Fine Arts, the marketing division of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative Limited at Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada.