To return the collection closer to its home, you might consider contacting
the  Inuit Gallery at the Winnipeg Art Gallery:

http://inuit.wag.ca/

David Hill-Turner
Researcher/Curator

On 6 March 2018 at 09:32, Anna Cannizzo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello Listers!
>
> The Oshkosh Public Museum was offered a collection of Inuit artwork and
> had to decline it as it does not fit our mission.  The donor is having
> trouble finding a potential home to consider the collection and asked me
> for assistance in reaching out to the wider museum community.  If anyone's
> institution would be interested in considering this collection, please
> contact me off-list for the donor's contact information (
> [log in to unmask]).  The donor provided the following list of
> material:
>
> Textiles:
>    - An Inuit seal-skin bag(purse) with an arctic fox face and ivory
> toggle (from Greenland, 1940s)
>    - An Inuit seal fur doll, 1950s, Kings Island, Alaska
>
> Stone-cut Prints:
>    - Polar Bear with Seal, 1962 by Juanisialuk Irqumia, Povengnituk Coop
> Society, Quebec Canada 1962 (edition 22/25)
>    - Woman with Seal, 1963 by Irgumia (above) (edition 29/30)
>    -Man Going After Bear with Dogs, 1979 by Isah Papialuk/Anna Amamatuak
> (edition 20/50)
>    -Eskimo Drying Fish by Agnes Nanogak
>    -Eskimo Pulling Seal by H. Napartuk
>    - Returning from the Hunt by H. Napartuk
>    -Eskimo at Seal Hole by H. Napartuk
>    -Eskimo and Beluga by H. Napartuk
>     -Eskimo Woman Fishing by H. Napartuk
>     -Eskimo with Dog Sled by H. Napartuk (rare small piece---conserved)
>    - Eskimo in Boat Hunting Walrus by H. Napartuk (conserved)
>
> Sculpture:
>     -Inuit Hunter and Seals Group on a slab of granite (artist unknown but
> from Sanikiluaq...there is a Canadian government disc number on the bottom)
>    - Man and Seal from Sanikiluaq (Belcher Island) Artiest signature in
> bottom ends in "urok". Igloo tag on bottom is earlier version of those
> first used in 1959. Estimate is from early 1960s.
>     -Seal Sculpture by Shovia Eyiatuk, Belcher Island
>     -Larger Seal Sculpture in marble (named and signed in Inuit)
>     -Inuit Seagull Sculpture (very old with coop number on side) Unknown
> artist.
>    -Otter Sculpture signed on bottom by artist in Inuit (I have not had
> the artist identified by Smithsonian) This one is highly detailed.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anna Cannizzo
> Durow Curator of Collections and Decorative Art
> Oshkosh Public Museum
>
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