Sculpture

Museum number:
2-71463
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020071463
Accession number:
Acc.4532
Description:
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.
Donor:
Katherine Graburn and Nelson H.H. Graburn
Collection place:
Naujaat, Nunavut, Canada
Culture or time period:
Eskimo and Inuit
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sculpture (visual works)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
This object record was created because location data had been entered into the PHOEBE database without a corresponding object record. (J. Meehan 6/2003)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with 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.Documentation associated with 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.

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