Spirit no. 16

1972

Karoo Ashevak, ᑲᕈ ᐊᓴᕙ (Inuit, 1940–1974)
Taloyoak, Nunavut, Canada

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Karoo Ashevak, (ᑲᕈ ᐊᓴᕙ)
Title: Spirit no. 16
Place: Taloyoak (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1972
Medium: Bone
Dimensions: 34.7 × 53.6 × 34 cm (13 11/16 × 21 1/8 × 13 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Reference Number: 2024.73

First National Bank of Chicago, The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago (Chicago: First National Bank of Chicago, 1974), 272-73, no. 1909 (ill.).

Indian and Eskimo Art of the Americas, by 1973 [this and the following according to correspondence from JPMorgan Chase, Nov. 18, 2021; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, 1973 [The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago 1974, no. 1909]; by corporate merger to First Chicago NBD, Chicago, 1995; by corporate merger to Bank One, Chicago, 1998; by corporate merger to JPMorgan Chase, Chicago, 2004 [Chase collection record, no. 2849]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

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