Carving
MOA: University of British Columbia
3040/67 a-d
A stone base carved to represent an ice floe with four walrus carvings - one juvenile and three adults with tusks. One walrus is attached to the floe base (part a) while three are detached (parts b-d). Each detached walrus has a peg in the bottom to set it into a hole on the base. Whiskers and facial features are drawn on by pen. Stone base has semi-circular notches cut out of each side and a decorative incised border.
- Type of Item carving
- Culture Inuit
- Material walrus tusk, stone, ink
- Measurements height 6.8 cm, width 11.5 cm, depth 9.0 cm (overall)
- Previous Owner Robert Clayton
- Received from Robert Clayton
- Made in Pangnirtung
- Creation Date during 1950
- Collection Date between 1949 and 1951
- Ownership Date before December 1, 2013
- Acquisition Date on December 1, 2013
- Item Classes carvings & sculpture
- Condition good
- Accession Number 3040/0067 a-d