Carving of a Seal
Pauta Saila, Inuit / Canadian, 1916 - 1992
Canadian Inuit
Arctic
collected 1953-1962
Stone
Overall: 6 1/2 × 3 1/8 × 2 3/4 in. (16.5 × 8 × 7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection
168.94.24430
Geography
Place Made: Kinngait, Dorset Island, Baffin Island, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Sculpture
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Sherman Post Haight (1889-1980) and Anne Pardee Lyon Haight (1891-1977), New York, New York, about 1962; given to the Stefansson Collection, Dartmouth College Library, 1962; transferred to the present collection, 1968.
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