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Carving

Image
Accession no.: Y: 81/4a-b
Title: Carving
Description: Carving, Bird, soapstone on base. Artist: Etidlooie Etidlooie (1910/11-1981). Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, before 1980.
Object type: Carving
Artist: Etidlooie, Etidlooie
Classified name:
Current place name: Canada > Nunavut > Qikiqtaaluk > Kinngait
Former place name: Canada > Northwest Territories > Baffin Island > Cape Dorset
Keyword(s): Carvings
Number of items: 2
Full description:

Carving (a) and base (b): Carving of a Bird in flecked light green and brown soapstone. Carved with outstretched curved wings. Head and beak turned to the left with incised eyes, pupils and nostrils. Syllabics carved on underside. Two metal pegs at centre of rectangular black plastic? base correspond to holes on underside of bird. Black felt glued to underside of base. Rectangular metal plaque attached to front of base. In Memory of Brian Roberts. 1912~1978.
Dimensions: Image:
  • Diameter: ?mm; depth: ?mm
  • a) Length: 470mm
  • b) Width: 150mm
  • total including base) Height: 280mm