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Sculpture, Inuksuk

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Accession no.: Y: 2005/8a
Title: Sculpture, Inuksuk
Description: Sculpture, Inuksuk. Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin Island), Nunavut, Canada, 1964.
Object type: Sculpture, Inuksuk
Classified name:
Current place name: Canada > Nunavut > Qikiqtaaluk > Kinngait
Former place name: Canada > Northwest Territories > Baffin Island > Cape Dorset
Keyword(s): Sculpture
Field collection:
Person: gimpel
Place: Canada > Nunavut > Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin Island) > Kinngait (Cape Dorset)
Date: 1964
Full description:

Sculpture, Inuksuk: Approximately 16 main pieces and several smaller irregular pieces of pink, black and white granite secured with concrete filler.

Related records:
  • SPRI Archives 069.41 [Inukshuk gift, 1979] Gimpel Family
  • Photographs of Inukshuk in SPRI Archives 069.41 [Inukshuk gift, 1979] Gimpel Family
  • 2005/8 b (end of right arm)
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 1060mm; height: 1780mm; length: ?mm; diameter: ?mm; depth: 540mm