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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71476a,b, described as Sculpture; flying bird on rock post. (a) bird; fine grained Baker Lake medium grey stone; wingspan 9 cm.; (b) post with spike on top that fits into bird; fine grained Baker Lake medium grey stone; h. 5.7 cm. See p. 57, “Images of the North” appraisal, for additional info.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71504, described as Sculpture; two human faces carved back to back carved on center “ disc” of whale vertebra; two sides of the vertebra have been fashioned into arms by cutting into each other to create fingers; on bottom, in pen, “ Graburn” and “ P.V.D” ( in syllabics) = “ the anthropologist”; w. 32cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71463, described as Sculpture; mother and child, flat-bottomed (no legs); hard reddish brown serpentine, local to the Repulse area; on bottom (in syllabics) “Isiku Nauja c 76” i.e. Isserkut Repulse Bay, copyright 1976; chip in hair parting, misc. nicks; h. ca. 21 cm. Child os on mother’s right shoulder, in parka (not indicated). See p. 44 “Images of the North” appraisal.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71472, described as Sculpture; “kneeling woman” with fishing line held in hands and mouth; oiled hard dark grey-green Baker Lake area stone, (oil dried out); caribou back sinew thread, wood pegs in both hands; incised on bottom (in syllabics) “Suvaga” and “76” and “0240405”: h. 15.5 cm. See p. 53, “Images of the North” appraisal, for additional info.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71455, described as Sculpture: Sitting bird, mottled dark green Cape Dorset serpentine, eyes of black record material inset; beak chipped; “ISAPIK” incised on underside. See p. 32 of Images of the North appraisal for add’l. info.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71426, described as Sculpture: Med. grey Povungnituk stone; standing “beast transformation figure” on self base; resembles howling wolf; “L. ETUK 70809” engraved on underside. Provenience: Canada, Arctic Quebec, Povungnituk and Kangirqsualujjuaq; Inuit; Tivi Etook. Example of “fantastic art” common in the Eastern Arctic. See Graburn’s notes on p.2 of the Images of the North appraisal for additional information.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71429, described as Sculpture: Med. grey Baker Lake stone; five “Keewatin Faces” on upright rock; “Alu” engraved in syllabics on underside. Provenience: Canada, Northwest Territories, Baker Lake and Arviat (Eskimo Point); Inuit; George Arluk. See p.5 of Graburn’s notes in Images of the North appraisal for add’l. information.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71442, described as Sculpture: Cape Dorset fine yellow-green serpentine; pair of ptarmigan, mating; “22” in felt pen on flat underside. Provenience: Canada, Northwest Territories, Cape Dorset, Inuit; Kellypalik Mangitak. See p.18 of remarks in Images of the North appraisal for additional information.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71474, described as Sculpture; standing man in Copper Eskimo parka; local slate grey stone; incised on one foot “EKA”, on the other “C.76”; hood is chipped; h. 13. cm. See p. 55, “Images of the North” appraisal, for additional information.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71493, described as Sculpture; two seals on rock “post” (ice floe?); medium grey Sugluk area soapstone, probably polished with shoe polish; h 11 cm. See “Images of the North” appraisal, p. 82 for additional info.

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