Photo: Toronto university unveils giant Inuit sculpture

Nunavut artists Ruben Komangapik, left and Koomuatuk (Kuzy) Curley, right, pose with Ahqahizu, their 26-tonne sculpture that was unveiled on the grounds of Toronto’s York University June 21, for National Aboriginal Day. The monumental granite sculpture depicts a soccer player kicking a walrus skull; Inuit legend says the northern lights are the souls of the dead playing soccer. Komangapik and Curley were commissioned to create the piece as part of the Toronto-based Mobilizing Inuit Cultural Heritage. Read more later at Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO BY SARAH ROGERS)