Museum catalogue: Inuit Art Collection
Carving
Details
Accession no.: | Y: 2005/7/26a-b | ||||
Title: | Carving | ||||
Description: | Carving, Bird, soapstone on base. Artist and community: unknown. Canada, before 1966. | ||||
Artist: | Artist unknown | ||||
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Number of items: | 2 | ||||
Full description: |
Carving (a): Carving (a) of a Bird (Auk) in grey soapstone. Carved with projecting beak turned right, downturned pointed wings at the sides, and square tail. Mouth, circular eyes and nostrils are incised. Two claws carved on feet. Circular hole under tail. Rectangular white paper label "K" glued to bottom left foot. Two metal pegs on square black plastic? base (b) correspond to holes under tail of bird. Green felt glued to bottom of base. base (b): Carving (a) of a Bird (Auk) in grey soapstone. Carved with projecting beak turned right, downturned pointed wings at the sides, and square tail. Mouth, circular eyes and nostrils are incised. Two claws carved on feet. Circular hole under tail. Rectangular white paper label "K" glued to bottom left foot. Two metal pegs on square black plastic? base (b) correspond to holes under tail of bird. Green felt glued to bottom of base. |
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