Third Scene from the Legend of Shokkoaluk and his Wife (Shokkoaluk is kneeling on the ice, his wife is under the ice; she eventually turns into a mermaid)
Levi Qumaluk, Inuit / Canadian, 1919 - 1997
Canadian Inuit
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
collected 1960
Soapstone
Overall: 8 1/4 × 7 7/8 in. (21 × 20 cm)
Overall: 4 3/4 in. (12 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
160.34.14535
Geography
Place Made: Puvirnituq (Povungnituk), Nunavik, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Native American
Sculpture
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 12.3, WGST 42.5, The Ethnography of Violence, Chelsey Kivland, Fall 2013
ANTH 12.3, WGST 42.5, Ethnography of Violence, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2015
ANTH 12.3, WGST 42.5, Ethnography of Violence, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2015
COLT 73.4, Violence, Ayo Coly, Winter 2015
ANTH 28/AAAS 88.08/WGSS 42.05, Ethnography of Violence, Chelsey Kivland, Spring 2022
Exhibition History
Polar Exhibition, Baker-Berry Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 4, 2007-January 31, 2008.
Provenance
Father Andre Pierre Marie Steinmann (1912-2005), Sculptors Society of Povungnetuk, Quebec, Canada; sold to present collection, 1960.
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