Pitseolak’s exceptional portrait of her husband, Ashoona, counters the misconception widely held in the 1950s and 1960s that Inuit artists did not create images of themselves or other individuals. She has captured Ashoona’s character—his playful gesture of touching his tongue to his nose, as well as his physical likeness. The image communicates her feelings toward her husband, who died in the early to mid-1940s, long before she became an artist; drawing is a way for the artist to re-experience the past and, in particular, to remember loved ones.