Sculpture

Museum number:
2-71451
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020071451
Accession number:
Acc.4532
Description:
Sculpture: Lop-sided sitting walrus with carved ivory tusks; medium-dark grey Povungnituk stone; no signature. Provenience: Canada, Northwest Territories, Cape Dorset, Inuit; Osuitok Ipeelee. See p.28 of Images of the North appraisal for further info.
Donor:
Katherine Graburn and Nelson H.H. Graburn
Collection place:
Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada
Culture or time period:
Inuit
Taxon:
Odobenus rosmarus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Sculpture (visual works)
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 2-71451, described as Sculpture: Lop-sided sitting walrus with carved ivory tusks; medium-dark grey Povungnituk stone; no signature. Provenience: Canada, Northwest Territories, Cape Dorset, Inuit; Osuitok Ipeelee. See p.28 of Images of the North appraisal for further info.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sculpture, accession number 2-71451, described as Sculpture: Lop-sided sitting walrus with carved ivory tusks; medium-dark grey Povungnituk stone; no signature. Provenience: Canada, Northwest Territories, Cape Dorset, Inuit; Osuitok Ipeelee. See p.28 of Images of the North appraisal for further info.

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