Mug / model

Description

Model of a mug carved from soapstone: North America, Canada, Baffin Island, Cape Dorset, Inuit, collected by John N.S. Buchan, 1938 - 1939

Museum reference

K.1997.430

Collection

Americas

Object name

Mug / model

Production information

Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, North America

Date

1938 - 1939

Style / Culture

Inuit

Materials

Soapstone

Physical description

Soapstone

Associations

Collector and owner: Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911 - 1996
Hudson's Bay Company

References

Tweedsmuir, Lord, Hudson's Bay Trader