Object Details
- Culture/People
- Inuit [Repulse Bay/Naujaat]
- Artist/Maker
- Christine Aaluk Sivanertok (Alo/Kidlalooka), Inuit [Repulse Bay/Naujaat], b. 1938
- Previous owner
- Goldsmith Collection
- Seller
- Goldsmith Collection
- Previous owner
- Bert Witt (Mervin Herbert Witt), Non-Indian, 1916-2013
- Ellen Witt (Ellen Hays Witt), Non-Indian, 1917-2007
- Donor
- Bert Witt (Mervin Herbert Witt), Non-Indian, 1916-2013
- Ellen Witt (Ellen Hays Witt), Non-Indian, 1917-2007
- Collection History
- Acquired by the Goldsmiths in 1972 in the Arctic Circle region; subsequently purchased by Inuit art collectors Bert Witt (Mervin Herbert Witt, 1916-2013) and his wife Ellen Hays Witt (1917-2007) from the Goldsmiths in 1982; donated to NMAI by Bert and Ellen Witt in 2001.
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- Date created
- 1972
- Catalog Number
- 26/327
- Barcode
- 260327.000
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Title
- Owl
- Object Name
- Figure
- Media/Materials
- Antler, animal bone
- Techniques
- Carved, inlaid, pegged
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 4.0 x 5.6 cm
- Place
- Repulse Bay (Naujaat); Kivalliq Region (Keewatin); Nunavut; Canada
- See related items
- Inuit [Repulse Bay/Naujaat]
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_276420
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws671e6e4e6-47d6-4ee9-aafb-637f07409fd1
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