George Twok Aden Ahgupuk
Shishmaref, Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska
(1911-2001)
October 2024
from the Sweeney collection
"Ahgupuk original painting on reindeer skin - Salmon drying"
"Ahgupuk original painting - Alaskan mountain range"
May 2020
from a private collection
"Ahgupuk original pen and ink weave - successful polar bear arctic hunt"
May 2020
from the Maribeth Deluca collection
"Ahgupuk original pen and ink winter Arctic home scene"
February 2002
formerly of the Randy and Sandy Rose collection
"Ahgupuk original pen and ink weave of Reindeer Roundup and Village scene"
November 2017
from the Sweeney collection
""Eskimos now look at the big houses that birds must fly around. All they can say is "Ah-yaaa, ah-yaaa". There are no words in
Eskimo to mean the big things the white man builds out of his head in Alaska". George Ahgupuk
""Everything came to Alaska for building lots and lots of houses. They came for the Alaska Housing Authority.
Lumber for white men's houses. Lumber for houses in Eskimo villages, too." George Ahgupuk
""Then came men called soldiers-as many as the stars. They carried guns. Pretty soon the Eskimos were soldiers too.
They lived in the white man's army houses and learned to march and salute". George Ahgupuk
"Villages grew bigger and spread out over the land. Where men found more yellow pebbles they made more towns and more stores.
Big boats ran up and down the rivers. White woman and children came too." George Ahgupuk
November 2017
from the Sweeney collection
Row 1 Ahgupuk originals Anchorage Alaska Native Hospital & cabin &
Alaska ferry system
Row 2 Ahgupuk originals Eskimo drying salmon and Gold dredge
Row 3 Ahgupuk originals Polar & seals and Sail boats in the Arctic
Row 4 Ahgupuk originals male and female moose on tundra
& Gold Miner and the Saloon