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Item Details
Public
Available to everyone
Culture
Inuit (Canadian Arctic Native style)
Title
Bear, or Prowling Polar Bear
Alternative title: ᓇᓄᖅ (nanuq)
Work Type
Statue
Date
1997
20th century
Material
Serpentine soapstone
Measurements
H. 12 3/4 x W. 21 1/2 x D. 9 in. (32.5 x 54.7 x 22.9 cm)
Description
Description: This sculpture depicts a polar bear walking on four feet with his head raised.
Repository
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
Avery Art Properties
Accession Number
2018.14.009
Genre Type
Animal art
Primary Classification
Sculpture (visual works)
Curatorial notes
The artist Peter Eyeetsiak is a Kinngait (Cape Dorset) artist also known by the names Eyeesiak, Ejesiak, and Egetsiak.
Credit line
Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Gift of Robin Wagner, Barnard College ’80, and Jerome Grossman, Columbia College ’61
Provenance
Purchased by Grossman/Wagner at the Alaska on Madison Gallery of Eskimo Art, New York City, on March 16, 1998; Gift of Grossman/Wagner to Columbia in November 2018
CLIO BIB ID
13752945
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File Properties
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Avery_AP_4812_02_001.jpg
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