- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.296
- Description
- Facial portrait of a woman in a fur parka with the hood down. The firgure's head is visible in a sea of fur. The dark brown trim of the hood of the woman's jacket forms a circle which sits in front of and behind her head. Light tan fur with areas in grey shadow separates the woman's head from the r…
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- Title
- Nanook's Wife
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Facial portrait of a woman in a fur parka with the hood down. The firgure's head is visible in a sea of fur. The dark brown trim of the hood of the woman's jacket forms a circle which sits in front of and behind her head. Light tan fur with areas in grey shadow separates the woman's head from the ring of dark brown. The woman's face is coloured red-brown with tints of orange and pink blended in. The woman is smiling. She has short hair (coloured brown, black and grey) which forms a thin semicircle about her head.
- Subject
- portrait, female
- Indigenous
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyC.01.296
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