Boy with Ball
Kunu, Inuit / Canadian, 1923 - 1966
Canadian Inuit
Arctic
1960
Stonecut print on Japanese paper
8/50
Sheet: 23 3/4 × 11 1/4 in. (60.3 × 28.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund
PR.961.117
Printer
Lukta Qiatsuk
Publisher
West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative, Kinngait
Geography
Place Made: Kinngait, Dorset Island, Baffin Island, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, lower left to right: Boy with Ball Stone Cut 8/50 Cape Dorset Baffin Is. Kunu
Course History
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
Exhibition History
Eskimo Art, Baker Library and Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1961, Sponsored by the Canadian Department of Northern Affairs and the Canadian Consulate in Boston brought to Dartmouth College by Mrs. Stefansson.
Publication History
"Eskimo Graphic Art 1960," issued under the authority of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, Cape Dorset, no. 36/60, 1960 [West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative's 2nd Annual Print Collection]
Published References
Eskimo Graphic Art 1960, issued under the authority of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, Cape Dorset, no. 36/60, 1960 [West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative's 2nd Annual Print Collection]
Provenance
Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (possibly through the Boston Museum of Science, selected from the exhibition of Eskimo Art brought to Dartmouth College by Evelyn Stefansson in 1961); sold to present collection, 1961.
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