Carving of a Human Head

Saggiak, Inuit / Canadian, 1897 - 1980
Canadian Inuit
Arctic

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collected 1953-1962

Ivory

Overall: 2 9/16 × 1 9/16 in. (6.5 × 4 cm)

Overall: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection

168.94.24432

Geography

Place Made: Kinngait, Dorset Island, Baffin Island, Canada, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Figure

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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