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Artist/Maker
Dania Koma
(Inuit (20th century))
Datemid 20th-late 20th century
MediumSoapstone
DimensionsOverall: 6 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (17.1 × 11.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of James Taylor Dunn, Class of 1936
Object number1992.37
On view
DescriptionPelican on base eating a large fish.
Collections
Additional Details
Exhibition History
2024-2025
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).
Provenance
1992: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of James Taylor Dunn.
Inscribed
Under base: "Dania Koma 00 x 3034"
Unknown artist
Date: likely late 19th century
Medium: Soapstone
Object number: 1943.194a-b
Unknown artist
Date: likely late 19th century
Medium: Soapstone
Object number: 1943.192a-b
Unknown artist, Chinese
Date: 1850-1880
Medium: Soapstone
Object number: 2024.16.1-36
Antoine-Louis Barye
Date: first cast 1857
Medium: Bronze
Object number: 1994.7
Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka
Date: 2021
Medium: Sumi paintings on washi, linocut on washi, rice bags, indigo, kakishibu, and gyotaku on washi, konnyaku, and handmade deckle box gampi paper
Object number: 2024.15
Unknown artist, Japanese
Date: 20th century
Medium: Carved boxwood
Object number: 1992.17.1
Nicario Jiménez Quispe
Date: c. 1992
Medium: Wood and boiled potato and gypsum powder paste with paint
Object number: 2024.6
Unknown artist, Chinese
Date: c. 618-907 CE
Medium: Red clay with remnants of pigment
Object number: 1994.58
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.5
Unknown artist
Date: 19th century
Medium: Cast bronze with inlay on marble base
Object number: 2023.10.73