A Knife Fight
Edith Akolok, Inuit / Canadian, 1931 - 2006
Canadian Inuit
Kitlinermiut (Copper Inuit)
Central Arctic
Arctic
collected 1953-1962
Stone and copper
Overall: 4 5/16 × 3 3/8 in. (11 × 8.5 cm)
Overall: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection
168.94.24444
Geography
Place Made: Kugluktuk, Kitikmeot, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Sculpture
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 11, NAS 11, Ancient Native Americans, Deborah Nichols, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2013
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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