Object Details
- Culture/People
- Inuit [Cape Dorset/Kinngait]
- Artist/Maker
- Kenojuak Ashevak (Kenojuak), Inuit [Cape Dorset/Kinngait], 1927-2013
- 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 1973; donated to NMAI by Bert and Ellen Witt in 2001.
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- Date created
- 1973
- Catalog Number
- 26/380
- Barcode
- 260380.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Title
- Owl
- Object Name
- Figure
- Media/Materials
- Dolomite
- Techniques
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 32.0 x 17.0 x 52.0 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_276473
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws611f46f71-ecf2-49f1-8b93-3b0ba7e3a6e8
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