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Eskimo Summer Tent
Niviaksiak (Canadian (Inuit), 1908–1959)
Inuit
1959
Object Place: Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada
Medium/Technique
Sealskin stencil on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 33 × 29.8 cm (13 × 11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Joyce W. and P. Frederick Sparling
Accession Number2019.622
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Signed
Graphite, bottom right
InscriptionsIn graphite along bottom edge, left to right: title; "stone cut"; numbered 30/30, "Cape Dorset Baffin Island", date...
ProvenanceMay 3, 2012, sale, Walker's Fine Art and Estate Auctioneers, Ottawa, lot 49, to Fred and Joyce Sparling, Pittsboro, NC; 2019, gift of Fred and Joyce Sparling to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 2019)