Inuk Eating
Simeonie Elijassiapik, Inuit / Canadian, born 1948
Canadian Inuit
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
about 1973
Gray steatite
Overall: 9 1/16 × 5 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (23 × 14 × 14 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jane and Raphael Bernstein
2011.64.9
Geography
Place Made: Inukjuak (Port Harrison), Nunavik, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Native American
Sculpture
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and inscribed, incised on bottom: SEMEONIE / E9960
Course History
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
Provenance
Quebec Handicraft Center; sold to Jane and Raphael Bernstein, Ridgewood, New Jersey, February 25, 1973; lent to present collection, 2011; given to present collection, 2013.
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