Object Details
- Culture/People
- Inuit [Cape Dorset/Kinngait]
- Artist/Maker
- Mary Qayuaryuk, Inuit [Cape Dorset/Kinngait], 1908-1982
- Previous seller
- Canadian Arctic Producers Co-operative Ltd. (CAP/Canadian Arctic Producers/Canadian Arctic Producers Co-op)
- 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 Inuit art collectors Bert Witt (Mervin Herbert Witt, 1916-2013) and his wife Ellen Hays Witt (1917-2007) from the Canadian Arctic Producers Co-operative Ltd. (Mississauga, Ontario) in 1972; donated to NMAI by Bert and Ellen Witt in 2001.
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- Date created
- 1971
- Catalog Number
- 26/373
- Barcode
- 260373.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Title
- Owl
- Object Name
- Figure
- Media/Materials
- Serpentine
- Techniques
- Carved, incised, polished
- Dimensions
- 23.5 x 13.0 x 21.5 cm
- Place
- Cape Dorset (Kingait, Kinngait, Kingnait); Qikiqtaaluk Region (Qitirmiut, Baffin); Nunavut; Canada
- Archipelago
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Island Name
- Dorset Island
- Island Grouping
- Baffin Island Group
- See related items
- Inuit [Cape Dorset/Kinngait]
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_276466
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws681386f81-d8a0-4e49-b608-ad577f43b4be
