Woman Sewing Skin Boots
Mary Ashevak Ezekiel, Inuit / Canadian, born 1932
Canadian Inuit
Arctic
1960
Stonecut print on paper
32/50
Sheet: 12 3/4 × 19 1/4 in. (32.4 × 48.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund
PR.961.113
Printer
Lukta Qiatsuk
Publisher
West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative, Kinngait
Geography
Place Made: Kinngait, Dorset Island, Baffin Island, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Course History
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
Exhibition History
Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Juanuary 27-May 13,2007.
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
Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 73, no.50.
Published References
Eskimo Graphic Art 1960, issued under the authority of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, Cape Dorset, no. 2/60, 1960 [West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative's 2nd Annual Print Collection]
Provenance
Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (possibly through the Boston Museum of Science, selected from the exhibition of Eskimo Art brought to Dartmouth College by Evelyn Stefansson in 1961); sold to present collection, 1961.
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