Object Details
- Culture/People
- Inuit [Cape Dorset/Kinngait]
- Artist/Maker
- Pitseolak Ashoona (Pitseolak), Inuit [Cape Dorset/Kinngait], 1904-1983
- Previous seller
- Canadian Arctic Producers Co-operative Ltd. (CAP/Canadian Arctic Producers/Canadian Arctic Producers Co-op)
- Previous owner
- Bert Witt (Mervin Herbert Witt), Non-Indian, 1916-2013
- Ellen Witt (Ellen Hays Witt), Non-Indian, 1917-2007
- Donor
- Bert Witt (Mervin Herbert Witt), Non-Indian, 1916-2013
- Ellen Witt (Ellen Hays Witt), Non-Indian, 1917-2007
- Collection History
- Purchased by Inuit art collectors Bert Witt (Mervin Herbert Witt, 1916-2013) and his wife Ellen Hays Witt (1917-2007) from the Canadian Arctic Producers Co-operative Ltd. (Mississauga, Ontario) in 1972; donated to NMAI by Bert and Ellen Witt in 2001.
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- Date created
- 1969
- Catalog Number
- 26/400
- Barcode
- 260400.000
- Object Type
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Title
- Dream of Motherhood
- Object Name
- Media/Materials
- Paper, ink
- Techniques
- Stone-cut printed
- Dimensions
- 87.9 x 62.2 cm
- Place
- Cape Dorset (Kingait, Kinngait, Kingnait); Qikiqtaaluk Region (Qitirmiut, Baffin); Nunavut; Canada
- Archipelago
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Island Name
- Dorset Island
- Island Grouping
- Baffin Island Group
- See related items
- Inuit [Cape Dorset/Kinngait]
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_276493
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6f0247bea-691f-4af3-9dd2-30989d34fd84
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