Object Details
- Culture/People
- Inuit [Repulse Bay/Naujaat]
- Artist/Maker
- Lucie Angalakte Mapsalak, Inuit [Repulse Bay/Naujaat], b. 1931
- Previous seller
- Canadian Arctic Producers Co-operative Ltd. (CAP/Canadian Arctic Producers/Canadian Arctic Producers Co-op)
- Collector
- Anne Ferguson, Non-Indian
- Previous owner
- Bert Witt (Mervin Herbert Witt), Non-Indian, 1916-2013
- Ellen Witt (Ellen Hays Witt), Non-Indian, 1917-2007
- Donor
- Bert Witt (Mervin Herbert Witt), Non-Indian, 1916-2013
- Ellen Witt (Ellen Hays Witt), Non-Indian, 1917-2007
- Collection History
- Purchased by Anne Ferguson from the Canadian Arctic Producers Co-operative Ltd. (Mississauga, Ontario) in 1972; subsequently given by Ferguson to Inuit art collectors Bert Witt (Mervin Herbert Witt, 1916-2013) and his wife Ellen Hays Witt (1917-2007); donated to NMAI by Bert and Ellen Witt in 2001.
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- Date created
- 1972
- Catalog Number
- 26/341
- Barcode
- 260341.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Title
- Owl
- Object Name
- Figure
- Media/Materials
- Ivory, sinew
- Techniques
- Carved, incised, polished
- Dimensions
- 2.1 x 3.5 x 5.2 cm
- Place
- Repulse Bay (Naujaat); Kivalliq Region (Keewatin); Nunavut; Canada
- See related items
- Inuit [Repulse Bay/Naujaat]
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_276434
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws666c23155-fa47-4bb5-b3ac-6e06ecb418fa
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