Hunter Pulling up Seal
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.41
- Description
- black stone, seal hunting scene; (a) carved hunter 16.0x11.0x12.5 is down on right knee, right arms pulling back, left hand forward; holes through both hands to hold implements; ca .3 wide buckskin ca 43 long is wound around left hand attached to spear; (b) base 6.0x14.0x17.5; flat stone rises in t…
- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Hunter Pulling up Seal
- Date
- prior to 1962
- Description
- black stone, seal hunting scene; (a) carved hunter 16.0x11.0x12.5 is down on right knee, right arms pulling back, left hand forward; holes through both hands to hold implements; ca .3 wide buckskin ca 43 long is wound around left hand attached to spear; (b) base 6.0x14.0x17.5; flat stone rises in the front to a point with hole through centre and grooved on bottom to centre front; (c) spear of ivory 10.3x.4 dia, pointed one end; (d) curved spear 10.0x.2 has a long copiled buckskin tied to it with an ivory hook 1.5 long attached to the end.
- Subject
- figure, male
- animal, seal
- hunting
- Credit
- Gift of Doreen Hutchinson, Calgary, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.41
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