Carving of a Walrus Head
Pauta Saila, Inuit / Canadian, 1916 - 1992
Canadian Inuit
Arctic
collected 1953-1962
Arctic marble and ivory tusks
Overall: 4 1/8 × 3 7/16 × 2 7/8 in. (10.5 × 8.8 × 7.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection
168.94.24425
Geography
Place Made: Kinngait, Dorset Island, Baffin Island, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Sculpture
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Sherman Post Haight (1889-1980) and Anne Pardee Lyon Haight (1891-1977), New York, New York, about 1962; given to the Stefansson Collection, Dartmouth College Library, 1962; transferred to the present collection, 1968.
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