Pail / model

Description

Model of a pail carved from walrus ivory, with details of rim picked out in blue pigment and handle of bent copper wire, part of a group with a model Inuit woman and walrus-shaped stand: North America, Canada, Baffin Island, Cape Dorset, Inuit, by Pitsulak, collected by John N.S. Buchan, 1938 - 1939

Museum reference

K.1997.433 C

Collection

Americas

Object name

Pail / model

Production information

Pitsulak
Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, North America

Date

1938 - 1939

Style / Culture

Inuit

Materials

Walrus ivory

Physical description

Walrus ivory; details of rim picked out in blue pigment; handle of bent copper wire

Associations

Scott Polar Research Institute
Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911 - 1996
Hudson's Bay Company

References

Tweedsmuir, Lord, Hudson's Bay Trader, p. 166