Small Secrets
Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Iñupiaq / Athabascan / American, born 1969
Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic
2009
Set of 60; walrus stomach, reindeer rawhide, glass beads, nylon thread, human hair, muskox wool, found fish net, cotton string, beads
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Claire and Richard P. Morse 1953 Fund
2015.5
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Sculpture
Not on view
Exhibition History
Artist-in-Residence: Recent Work by Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Fall 2014.
Contemporary Abstraction: Works from the Hood Museum of Art's Permanent Collection, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 4-March 13, 2016.
Provenance
The artist; Anchorage, Alaska; sold to present collection, 2015.
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