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Hunter Pulling Up Seal

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Artist
Eli Weetalooktook ( – 1958, Canadian)
Date
prior to 1958
Medium
stone; sinew; wood
Catalogue Number
WeS.06.01
Description
green stone; a parka clad Inuit hunter sitting with legs braced; leaning back to be almost horizontal; carved features; a piece of sinew in both hands which connects to a wood peg in a hole; the hole is in the centre of a carved point in a carved circle which is in a 2.5 wide carved depression ac…
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Artist
Eli Weetalooktook ( – 1958, Canadian)
Title
Hunter Pulling Up Seal
Date
prior to 1958
Medium
stone; sinew; wood
Dimensions
7.2 x 11.5 cm
Description
green stone; a parka clad Inuit hunter sitting with legs braced; leaning back to be almost horizontal; carved features; a piece of sinew in both hands which connects to a wood peg in a hole; the hole is in the centre of a carved point in a carved circle which is in a 2.5 wide carved depression across base foreground.
Subject
figure, male
activity, hunting
fishing
Credit
Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
Catalogue Number
WeS.06.01
Images
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Untitled (Young First Nations Child)

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Artist
Dorothy Marie Oxborough (1922 – 2014, Canadian)
Date
c. 1940
Medium
pastel chalk on paper
Catalogue Number
OxD.03.02
Description
Pastel portrait of an Indigenous child. The child’s long hair is in braids, and she wears a beaded headband, with triangles of yellow and blue. Her shirt is yellow, with a white collar, and she wears purple beads around her neck.
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Artist
Dorothy Marie Oxborough (1922 – 2014, Canadian)
Title
Untitled (Young First Nations Child)
Date
c. 1940
Medium
pastel chalk on paper
Dimensions
24 x 31.5 cm
Description
Pastel portrait of an Indigenous child. The child’s long hair is in braids, and she wears a beaded headband, with triangles of yellow and blue. Her shirt is yellow, with a white collar, and she wears purple beads around her neck.
Subject
Indigenous
child
portrait
Credit
Gift of Roy Dundas, Executor- Roy B. and Delores M. Dundas Family Trust, Banff, 2006
Catalogue Number
OxD.03.02
Images
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Untitled (Young First Nations Child)

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactoxd.03.03
Artist
Dorothy Marie Oxborough (1922 – 2014, Canadian)
Date
c. 1940
Medium
pastel chalk on paper
Catalogue Number
OxD.03.03
Description
Pastel portrait of a young girl. She has black hair, in two braids, with bangs visible on the left side of her forehead, under her brown cowboy hat. She wears a red scarf with white dots around her neck. The child gazes at the viewer, unsmiling.
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Artist
Dorothy Marie Oxborough (1922 – 2014, Canadian)
Title
Untitled (Young First Nations Child)
Date
c. 1940
Medium
pastel chalk on paper
Dimensions
24 x 31.5 cm
Description
Pastel portrait of a young girl. She has black hair, in two braids, with bangs visible on the left side of her forehead, under her brown cowboy hat. She wears a red scarf with white dots around her neck. The child gazes at the viewer, unsmiling.
Subject
Indigenous
child
portrait
Credit
Gift of Roy Dundas, Executor- Roy B. and Delores M. Dundas Family Trust, Banff, 2006
Catalogue Number
OxD.03.03
Images
Less detail
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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