Greenlandic Inuit
Model Kayak
Inuit, 1800-1932
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Greenlandic Inuit
Model Kayak
Inuit, 1800-1932
Physical Qualities
Wood, skin, whalebone, unidentified black coating, 4 × 2 1/2 × 20 1/2 in. (10.2 × 6.4 × 52.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
Object Number
2003.164
The hunter with a carved wood face and hands, wearing a finely sewn skin hooded anorak jacket, seated in a skin spray skirt. Wood hands holding the central part of a paddle (blades missing). The kayak made with skin over a wood frame, a whalebone strip down the keel. The whole covered with a black substance.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift 2003; Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
