Eskimo Family Caching Fish Item Number: Na725 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Five human figures, holding fish and/or fish spears all facing toward the left where there is a pile of stones representing a cache. At the side on the right there is a group of four birds, three small and one as large as the humans. Some figures are in shaded tones of blue, others are black. At the upper corner on the left is the stamp of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, Cape Dorset. Numbered 33/50 and is number 4-61 in the catalogue.
History Of Use
Made for sale
Item History
- Made by Kiakshuk (Maker) and Kananginak Pootoogook (Technician) in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada and Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada during 1961
- Received from Unknown (Donor) during 1986
What
Who
- Culture
- Inuit
- Creator
- Kiakshuk (Maker) and Kananginak Pootoogook (Technician)
- Previous Owner
- “Unknown” ?
- Received from
- Unknown (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada and Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada
When
- Creation Date
- during 1961
- Acquisition Date
- during 1986
Other
- Item Classes
- works on paper
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 1112/0002