Nalenik Temela
Canadian sculptor
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Career
Temela carved using soapstone and serpentine.[3]
His work is held in several museums worldwide, including the Penn Museum,[4] the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[5] the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,[6] the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa,[7] the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum in Iqaluit,[7] the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka,[8] and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.[9]
The North West Company gave Prince Charles and Princess Diana one of Temela's carvings as a wedding gift in 1982.[7]
His work was part of the traveling 2005 exhibition "Masters of the Arctic."[10]
