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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71449, described as Sculpture: Large owl, sitting; grey-green Cape Dorset serpentine; label may cover signature in syllabics. Provenience: Canada, Northwest Territories, Cape Dorset, Inuit; Mary Qayuaryuk. See p. 25 of Images of the North appraisal for further information.
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 2-71485, described as Sculpture; bird, sitting, with raised wing; self base; medium grey stone from Povungnituk area; incised on underside “ISA” (under label, “7--6”; h. 11.7 cm. See “Images of the North” appraisal, p. 68, 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 2-71431, described as Sculpture: light grey stone; minimalist abstract bird figure with hollowed-out eyes; other way up is a boot (acc. to some Inuit); flat, angular; syllabics “Miki” and K122-4” incised on underside. Provenience: Canada, Northwest Territories, Arviat (Eskimo Point), Inuit; Andy Miki. See p.7 of Images of the North appraisal for doner’s remarks.
Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-72520, described as Cape Dorsett Inuit head sculpture; carved and polished green soapstone head.

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