Two Hunters Carrying a Seal
probably Charlie Sivuarapik, Canadian Inuit, 1911 - 1968
Canadian Inuit
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
about 1957
Soapstone
Overall: 9 1/8 × 8 × 7 in. (23.2 × 20.3 × 17.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
S.957.27
Geography
Place Made: Povungnituk, Nunavik, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Native American
Sculpture
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Course History
ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2012
ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2013
Exhibition History
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-January 5, 2020
Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Juanuary 27-May 13,2007.
Tradition and Transformation: Twentieth Century Inuit Art from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Gene Y. Kin Class of 1985 Gallery, Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 22, 2014-December 6, 2015.
Publication History
Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 75, no.61.
Provenance
Collection of Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962) and Evelyn Stefansson Nef (1913-2009), Hanover, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1957.
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