In each of the Arctic communities identified The North West Company operates a combination of food and general merchandise stores through which Inuit Art Marketing purchases sculpture from local carvers on a cash basis. 

The sculpture is carefully packed and shipped from the community directly to our Toronto showroom utilizing mainly Aboriginal owned and operated airlines such as Air Inuit and First Air. Our buyers in Toronto are in daily contact with the communities and purchase each carving working with store staff and the individual carver, through video phone technology, to arrive at an agreed upon price. Once received in Toronto each carving is authenticated and registered with an eight digit code cross referring the Artist, community, and subject and identified with the "Igloo" tag as a genuine Inuit Art carving. These tags are registered and distributed by the Canadian government and can only be acquired by bona fide agents such as Inuit Art Marketing. 

This control is in place to protect Artists from mass produced imitations which can be found in the Canadian market place consequently only carvings displaying the tag identified below should be considered individual works of art.