Legend of the Blind Man and the Bear

1959

Kananginak , Artist Pootagook , Artist

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About the Artwork

Title Legend of the Blind Man and the Bear

Artwork Date 1959

Makers Kananginak (Artist) Inuit, Native American, 1935-2010 Pootagook (Artist) Inuit, Native American, 1900-1960

Medium Sealskin stencil printed in color ink on japan paper

Dimensions Image: 11 7/8 × 22 3/8 inches (30.2 × 56.8 cm) Sheet: 15 × 24 1/8 inches (38.1 × 61.3 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of the Willistead Art Gallery of Windsor

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 60.145

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Inscriptions Inscribed, below image: Legend of the Blind Man and the Bear Skin stencil 30/7 Cape Dorset, Baffin Island June 57, April 59 Pootagook and Kananginak Inscribed, in pencil, upper right corner: 35

Marks Marks, below image, lower center left: [chops of artist, printmaker, and West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative]

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Willistead Art Gallery (Windsor, Canada);
1960-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Cape Dorset Print Catalogue. 1959, no. SS-5.

Women's City Club, Detroit (April 1964) (no cat.).

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Kananginak; Pootagook, Legend of the Blind Man and the Bear, 1959, sealskin stencil printed in color ink on japan paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Willistead Art Gallery of Windsor, 60.145.