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ORIGINS

How did the object find its way to the museum, and why is it presented this way? 

Two demonic figures climbing on a a tent. Shapes shown in black ink on cream paper as silhouettes. In lower left are 10 lines of small handwritten letters in Inuktitut writing. Writing translates to English: The Torngat that come knocking in the night. This story was terrifying when my father and grandmother told it. I mean, it was very scary. Long ago, in a tent, when they still used sealskin tents, as darkness fell, these creatures would scratch at the tent. The people were so scared that they couldn’t speak a word. They must’ve been the devils children, his daughters or his sons. No one dared to leave during this time. They circled the tent all night long, scratching at it. It would eventually stop in the dead of night.

Inuit Printmaking and the Concept of Purity

College Student Voices

This article explores the concept of purity in criticisms of Inuit prints by briefly introducing the history of printmaking in Cape Dorset and looking at 1970s Western art historians' expectations of Inuit art.

A brown skinned man with long hair, wearing a headdress, a beaded medallion, and carrying a short wooden staff stands in a dark landscape, looking into the distance.

Kunneepaumwuw ut Nahhiggananēuck aukéashut

You are standing on Narragansett lands.

The man in this painting lived in the same era and region as some of colonists seen in this gallery.

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