Carving of a Walrus Head

Pauta Saila, Inuit / Canadian, 1916 - 1992
Canadian Inuit
Arctic

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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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