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Inuit artists: Pitseolak Ashoona

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May 16, 2017

folk art drawing of Inuit people
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Pitseolak Ashoona (Inuit, 1904–1983), Migration towards Our Summer Camp, 1983 (released in 1984 folio). Lithograph. Courtesy Dorset Fine Arts. On view in “Akunnittinni: A Kinngait Family Portrait” from June 10 to Jan. 8, 2018, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American, George Gustav Heye Center in New York City.

“Akunnittinni: A Kinngait Family Portrait” was organized by the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, N.M. Extended label text is provided by Andrea R. Hanley and Edward J. Guarino.


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