Two Hunters Carrying a Seal

probably Charlie Sivuarapik, Canadian Inuit, 1911 - 1968
Canadian Inuit
Eastern Arctic
Arctic

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about 1957

Soapstone

Overall: 9 1/8 × 8 × 7 in. (23.2 × 20.3 × 17.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund

S.957.27

Geography

Place Made: Povungnituk, Nunavik, Canada, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Sculpture

Research Area

Native American

Sculpture

Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern

Not on view

Course History

ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2012

ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2013

Exhibition History

Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-January 5, 2020

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. 75, no.61.

Provenance

Collection of Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962) and Evelyn Stefansson Nef (1913-2009), Hanover, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1957.

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