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Inuit woman carrying a child in her back pouch/amauti (Frobisher Bay model)

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Item

Date:

1956

Reference:

R3251

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3008992

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Harold Samson Pfeiffer fonds

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Inuit woman carrying a child in her back pouch/amauti (Frobisher Bay model)
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Date(s):

1956

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 cut and/or pasted : cut-out on black construction paper
Support 17.800 x 7.400 cm

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A cut-out paper silhouette showing the left facing (to the viewer) figure of a standing Inuit woman carrying a child in her amauti (i.e. a roomy pouch forming a part of the woman's upper garment), her head uncovered and her left hand slightly extended in front of her. This record is from a file containing twenty-seven paper and/or cardboard and/or masonite cut-out sections that were used by the artist to create a model for the new Community Dining Lounge at Frobisher Bay, N.W.T., in 1956

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Artist: Pfeiffer, Harold, 1908-1997
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Inuit

other

silhouette
Source:

Private

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00037
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Graphic (art)

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Item no. assigned by LAC [R3251] 37

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R3251-37
Copyright: Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

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