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Printing stone: Seal Hunter

(Canadian (Inuit), 1915–1999)
about 1973
Object PlacePanniqtuuq (Pangnirtung), Nunavut, Canada
Medium/TechniqueStone
DimensionsOverall: 16.5 × 12.7 cm (6 1/2 × 5 in.)
Credit LineGift of Joyce W. and P. Frederick Sparling
Accession number2019.632
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTools and equipment
ProvenanceMay 4, 2002, sold by Albers Gallery, San Francisco, to Fred and Joyce Sparling, Pittsboro, NC; 2019, gift of Fred and Joyce Sparling to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 2019)
about 1340
Unknown Native American, Mapuche culture
19th century
Pounding tool
A.D. 1200–1521
Caroline Schetky Richardson
about 1820–30
Caroline Schetky Richardson
about 1820–30
"Rombic" lamp base, shape 224
Reuben Haley
designed 1928; manufactured 1928–1930
Unidentified artist
about 1850