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Woman Sewing Skin Boots

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Artist
Mary Ashevak (1932 – , Canadian)
Date
1960
Medium
ink on paper
Catalogue Number
AsM.04.01
Description
A positive, black image of a woman, dressed in a parka, sewing a skin boot; 3 utensils are near her; titled, numbered, dated and signed in pencil from the left; pasted on the tr back a 2.5 x 1.9 label: Canadian Eskimo Art”.Bottom text reads “Woman Sewing Skin Boots Stone Cut 9/50 Cape Dorset 1960 M…
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Artist
Mary Ashevak (1932 – , Canadian)
Title
Woman Sewing Skin Boots
Date
1960
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
31.0 x 48.8 cm
Description
A positive, black image of a woman, dressed in a parka, sewing a skin boot; 3 utensils are near her; titled, numbered, dated and signed in pencil from the left; pasted on the tr back a 2.5 x 1.9 label: Canadian Eskimo Art”.Bottom text reads “Woman Sewing Skin Boots Stone Cut 9/50 Cape Dorset 1960 M. Ashevak”The series of chops in the top left are as follows: the first red chop denotes Miri (Mary) Ashevak Ezekial, the artist; the second red chop denotes Lukta Qiatsuk, the printer; the black igloo chop denotes that the print was made in the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative in Cape Dorset.
Subject
figure
woman
activity
sewing
Inuit
Credit
Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
Catalogue Number
AsM.04.01
Images
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