Greenlandic Inuit
Model Kayak
Inuit, 1800-1932
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Greenlandic Inuit
Model Kayak
Inuit, 1800-1932
Physical Qualities
Wood, fiber, trade cloth, hide, skin, ivory, whalebone, 5 1/2 × 2 1/2 × 20 1/2 in. (14 × 6.4 × 52.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
Object Number
2003.161
The hunter with a carved wood face and hands, straw-colored fiber hair wrapped with scarf, trade cloth jacket with hide cuffs and collar, seated in a skin spray skirt, holding a paddle. Several finely detailed wood and ivory miniature harpoons and accessories strapped to the deck of the vessel. The kayak made with skin over a wood frame, a whalebone strip down the keel, the prow and stern tipped with egg-shaped ivory points.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift 2003; Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
