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Basket with Inuit Carving Handle

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This basket was sewn by an Inuit maker using closely-set stitches on a continuous bundle foundation of grass. The geometric motifs around its midsection are sewn using dyed blue and red string, and the handle represents an Inuit hunter straddling a captured seal. The seal has a hole drilled through its head to represent a wound. The hunter is also holding a fishing line made of sinew, and the piece originally featured a carved harpoon which is now missing.

Unknown
Grass string, Aniline dyes, Steatite, Sinew
29 (l) x 24 (w) x 22 (h)
c. 1960s
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