Inuk Boy

Qaqaq Ashoona, Inuit / Canadian, 1928 - 1996
Canadian Inuit
Eastern Arctic
Arctic

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about 1983

Green serpentine

Overall: 16 9/16 × 7 1/16 × 4 1/2 in. (42 × 18 × 11.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jane and Raphael Bernstein

2011.64.5

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

Inscriptions

Incised, on bottom of right foot: artist's name [Inuktitut syllabics]

Publication History

John R. Stomberg, A Legacy for Learning: The Jane and Raphael Bernstein collection; Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Art, 2021, fig. 4.2, p.45, listed p.99.

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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