Toy Bird with Seal | Detroit Institute of Arts Museum

Toy Bird with Seal, between 1950 and 1955

Inuit, Native American

Stone and red clay

Overall (approx): 3 5/8 × 7 5/8 × 3 5/8 inches (9.2 × 19.4 × 9.2 cm) Overall (base): 2 1/8 × 4 1/2 × 2 1/8 inches (5.4 × 11.4 × 5.4 cm) Overall (lemming): 5/8 × 2 1/8 × 5/8 inches (1.6 × 5.4 × 1.6 cm) Overall (bird): 1 1/2 × 3 1/8 × 1 1/2 inches (3.8 × 7.9 × 3.8 cm)

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Creaser and Miss Jessie Metcalf

59.193

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Toys (recreational artifacts)

possibly (The Canadian Handicrafts Guild, branch in London, Ontario, Canada)

1955, purchased by Charles William Creaser [ca. 1898-1965] and Hulda Ward Creaser [died ca. 1970] (Detroit, Michigan, USA) or Jessie Metcalf (active Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1959-present, gift of Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Creaser and Jessie Metcalf to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Peck, William. "Eskimo Art." Bulletin of the DIA 41, no. 1 (1961): 12-13.

Inuit, Native American, Toy Bird with Seal, between 1950 and 1955, stone and red clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Creaser and Miss Jessie Metcalf, 59.193.