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Carved stone caribou (part a) kneeling on all fours, with legs tucked underneath the large body. The caribou is facing forward with rounded ears back, eyes squinting, and mouth slightly open. Both antlers (parts b-c) have been broken off above their attachment points.
Carved stone bear (part a) with inset teeth. Stands on a rectangular stone base (part b) with two wooden pegs. The bear's forearms are bent, and mouth is open and baring its teeth.
Stone carving of a woman. She is shown bending forward with a child wrapped in the amaut pouch on the back of her parka, and carrying a large stone cooking lamp in her hands, resting it on the ground in front of her. Her parka is fringed along the sides, and she wears high boots. The woman’s textured hair is plaited into two braids, her face broad, with wide eyes and mouth and a small nose. Disc number scratched on base appears to read E9 916.
Model stone oil lamp. Lamp (part a) is triangular in shape, concave on top surface, with intersecting ridges on the base that come to a point at centre. Bone wick (part b) is wide and slightly curved, carved with a series of regularly spaced grooves at top. Wood posts attach it to holes along the lamp's long edge. The small stone pot (part c) is rectangular, with a twisted, rigid sinew rope tied though holes at each corner. Rope fits into ridges carved into one end of the bone pot holder (part d), which bends in the centre and sits in a hole on the lamp’s edge. Lamp rests on a triangular stone stand (part e) with a raised ring at centre. Three wooden posts (part f, g, h) support the lamp above the stand.
ARCTIC ART (AMNH, NEW YORK, NY, USA, 1991)
ARCTIC ART (AMNH, NEW YORK, NY, USA, 1991)
Dark green-black carving of a fish resting on its stomach. Tail fin is slightly curved up and mouth is open. Small dots and lines are carved on the tail fin.
Hunter is leaning back, almost reclining with his legs braced against a wedge-shaped stone (ice?). There is a walrus lying on its side on the other side of the rock. The hunter is holding a thin hide line which passes through holes in his hands, the top ridge of the rock and attaches to the walrus's body. The walrus's back flippers are crossed and there are four vertical lines along its underbelly and several curved lines at its neck. The hunter has a broad face, rimmed oval eyes and rimmed straight mouth. His hair forms a cap on his head. Large indentation on top side of rock. Hair and walrus have been polished.
Seal on back with truncated, gloved hand opening a longitudinal split along seal. Thumb is in opening. Flippers at back form a u-shape. Each has two channels to outside. There is an additional flipper opposite hand. Head is tilted back with round eyes, nostrils and u-shaped slit mouth. Seal rests on flat, triangular base. At wider end of base are two holes drilled from sides to bottom, and one across a corner, through two sides. A sticker on side reads 'c1970' and 70 80.' Black with green to bottom.
Sitting, goose-like bird with long neck, curved back over body and rounded head, angled upwards, with triangular beak. Dots at eyes and slit across beak. Thick, oval body with wings outlined at sides. Wings have a series of lines indicating feathers or horizontal markings. '1769' inscribed in bottom. Sticker reads '125'.