Chisel
Gallery Location
Daphne Cockwell Gallery dedicated to First Peoples art & culture
Maker
Nunatsiarmiut or Nunavimiut
Medium
Bone, metal
Geography
Nunavut or Quebec, Canada
Date
1910-1914
Dimensions
15 x 4.4 x 2.4 cm
Object number
HC1819
Credit Line
Gift of Sir William Mackenzie; the Robert J. Flaherty Collection
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: Indigenous Americas
Description
In 1910, the Canadian Northern Railway commissioned Robert J. Flaherty (1884 – 1951) to search for iron ore deposits along the northeast coast of Hudson's Bay. Flaherty visited the Arctic over several years during which he collected a wide range of Inuit artifacts. He became interested in filming Inuit life and his popular 1922 silent film, Nanook of the North, garnered him acclaim as a documentary film pioneer.
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