Greenlandic Inuit
Model Kayak
Inuit, 1800
Physical Qualities
Wood, skin, gut, ivory, bone, 4 1/2 × 2 1/2 × 19 1/4 in. (11.4 × 6.4 × 48.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
Object Number
2003.163a-b
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 meant to hold the double-blade paddle strapped to the deck. Harpoons and other accessories also strapped to the deck, moveable, with a line connected to a gut float with ivory or bone stabilizers. The kayak made with skin over a wood frame, a whalebone strip down the keel, the front end tipped with an egg-shaped ivory point.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift 2003; Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
Darienne Turner, The Baltimore Museum of Art, “Arctic Artistry”, July 17, 2022 to January 8, 2023.
