Dancing Figure
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 May 1991
label: Collection Date
content: 1927 to 1928
name: label: Collector
content: Paul Oscanyan
label: Collector
content: Mrs. Astrid F. Oscanyan
label: Donor Name
content: Paul Oscanyan
notes: label: Notes
content: MADE FROM WALRUS TUSK. 2 MALE, 2 FEMALE DANCING FIGURES ON SEMI-CIRCULAR BASES. ONE MALE IN TRADITIONAL DRESS. 1 YOUNG MALE IN TRADITIONAL DRESS. 1 FEMALE POSED ON ONE FOOT WITH TRADITIONAL FEMALE DRESS (HIGH KAMIKS, POINTED END ON ANORAK) AND HAIR FASHIONED INTO TOPKNOT. 1 FEMALE DRESSED IN TRADITIONAL WOMEN'S DRESS EXCEPT FOR ANORAK WHICH IS NOT POINTED. PANTS AND KAMIKS W/ INCISED LINES REPRESENTING EMBROIDERY. THIS FIGURE'S TOP-KNOT HAS BROKEN OFF. EACH FIGURE HAS "P.R. KANGAMIUT" CARVED INTO BOTTOM OF BASE. ACCORDING TO THE COLLECTOR, THESE ARE 2 PAIRS OF MALE AND FEMALE DANCING FIGURES. MADE BY A MAN WHO LIVED NEAR GODTHAAB ON THE SOUTHWEST COAST. BOUGHT BY THE COLLECTOR AT GODTHAAB, UNPAINTED BUT VERY WELL CARVED. THIS COULD BE THE WORK OF PETER VALLENTIN ROSING, SCULPTOR FROM KANGAMIUT WHO DIED IN 1938. (SEE THE ART OF GREENLAND, BODIL KAALUND, U. OF CALIF. PRESS, 1983, P. 40 FF)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: West Coast Of Greenland, West Greenland, Greenland
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, West Greenland Inuit / Kalaallit
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 356736
label: USNM Number
content: E424715-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Height - Male
content: 7.9 cm
label: Height - Young Male
content: 6.8 cm
label: Height - Female
content: 8.4 cm
label: Height - Female W/topknot Broken Off
content: 7.6 cm