Female Doll made of caribou skin, Nunatsiarmiut (Baffin Island Inuit), c.1914
Female Doll made of caribou skin, Nunatsiarmiut (Baffin Island Inuit), c.1914
Currently on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.
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Really amazing work. This post led me to the Wikipedia page for the Baffin Island and I will share some interesting facts I learned:
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Baffin Island is the 5th largest island in the world
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About 3/4 of its population is indigenous
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It has a population is about 13,000 which is over half of the Arctic Archipelago as a whole
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If it were a country, it would tie with Greenland for the lowest population density at .03/km².
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Unrelated: There's a small island in Ireland called Boffin Island in English with a population under 200. The Gaelic name, Inishbofin, means "Island of the White Cow"
God I love Wikipedia
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