Ready to Leave for the Hunt
Sarah Joe Qinuajua, Inuit / Canadian, 1917 - 1986
Canadian Inuit
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
1983
Stonecut print on paper
2/50
Overall: 13 1/8 × 20 in. (33.3 × 50.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jane and Raphael Bernstein
2011.64.17
Printer
Annie Amamatuak
Publisher
Povungnituk Print Collection, Arctic Quebec, Puvirnituq
Geography
Place Made: Puvirnituq (Povungnituk), Nunavik, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Inscriptions
Numbered, inscribed and dated, in graphite, lower left to right: 2/50 [Inuktitut syllabics] 1983
Course History
ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2013
ENVS 15, Environmental Issues: Earth's Cold Region, Spring 2019
Arctic Health Conference Viewing, Winter 2020
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
Exhibition History
Inuit Art
Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, Legacy for Learning: The Jane and Raphael Bernstein Collection, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 4, 2021–February 6, 2022.
Tradition and Transformation: Twentieth Century Inuit Art from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Gene Y. Kin Class of 1985 Gallery, Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 22, 2014-December 6, 2015.
Publication History
Mizuho Hasegawa, Language Maintenance Among Minorities and Indigenous Peopole: Reality and Future of the Canadian Inuit, 2019, Tokyo, Japan: Akashi Shoten Co., Ltd., cover ill.
John R. Stomberg, A Legacy for Learning: The Jane and Raphael Bernstein collection; Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Art, 2021, Plate 27, p.53, listed p.100.
Published References
Povungnituk Print Collection, 1983, Levis, Quebec: La Federation des Cooeratives du Nouveau Quebec, 1983, catalogue no. 21.
Provenance
The Guild Shop, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; sold to Jane and Raphael Bernstein, Ridgewood, New Jersey, September 13, 1983; lent to present collection, 2011; given to present collection, 2013.
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