As was typical of other native artists working in the 1930 to 1960 era, Ahgupuk produced drawings on a variety of objects and materials in an attempt to expand the market for his work. He made small coin purses or wallets of tanned skins with drawings on both the front and back. The artist has also completed a number of oil paintings. Some of his pen and ink drawings have been enhanced with watercolors, particularly to highlight the white snow and ice formations that he often depicted. In addition to the skins and hides of the animals already mentioned, salmon skins also were used, albeit rarely, as canvases, producing a textural effect in the finished work.
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1940s-1950s Pen and ink on reindeer skin with strips of dyed deer skin 33.2 cm. During the 1950s, Ahgupuk experimented by doing a limited number of drawings directly on glazed ceramic wall tiles. 3 inch by 3 inch tiles were used for black and white drawings, while colored drawings were done on larger 5 inch by 5 inch tiles. It is likely that other examples similarly deteriorated, as only a few are known to still exist in private collections. 1950s Pencil and colored pencil on reindeer skin 25.2 cm.