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Carving

Image
Accession no.: Y: 72/18/72
Title: Carving
Description: Carving, Caribou, ivory. Labrador Inuit. Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada, 1889.
Object type: Carving
Classified name:
Current cultural affiliation: Labrador Inuit
Former cultural affiliation: Labrador Eskimo
Current place name: Canada > Newfoundland > Labrador
Keyword(s): Carvings
Field collection:
Person: grenfell
Place: Canada > Newfoundland > Labrador
Date: 1889
Number of items: 1
Full description:

Carving: Ivory. Caribou standing with legs apart. Carved with upstanding three-pronged antlers and extended tail and triangular ears. Eyes, mouth and nostrils are incised and blackened.

Related records:
  • SPRI Archives MS 1014/2/1-4 Basil Woodd-Walker Descriptions of artifacts
  • SPRI Archives MS 1014/1/1-6 Letters (6) to B. Woodd-Walker, 1902-16. Sir W.T. Grenfell
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 11mm; height: 39mm; length: 35mm; diameter: ?mm; depth: ?mm