Scanning the Ice for Seals
About this object
Narrative
Purchase funded by the Estate of Gwendolyne Lottie Alcock.
Iconographic meaning
A hunter hiding behind pieces of jagged ice looking for seals (artist).
Physical description
Small sculpture of hooded hunter's head and jagged rocks. Finely carved white stone face is inside a black stone hood with etched lines showing fur around face. The hood ends in a pointed tip at top and off to one side at the bottom edge. The carved head is situated over a marbled white stone base with rough, pointed edges on three sides; flat on bottom. Artist inscription etched into base.
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