The Arctic Circle records

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The Arctic Circle records

1967-1987; bulk 1971-1986

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.004

The Arctic Circle records include materials gathered by Bert and Ellen Witt for their private gallery of Inuit art The Arctic Circle. These materials include native artists information which is organized by community, reference material organized topically, slides from the gallery's annual print collections as well as photographs of scupltures and textiles displayed in the gallery. Much of the reference material used by the gallery pertains to native communities in the Nunavet Territory of Canada such as Cape Dorset and Baker Lake as well as other small communities throughout the Northwest Territiories. Additionally photographs taken by Bert and Ellen Witt's son Tony during a trip to Canada in 1973 are included in this collection.

634 Slides (photographs); 152 Photographs; 1.6 Linear feet

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6363787

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Arluk, Geroge, 1949-

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The Arctic Circle (Gallery: Los Angeles, Calif.).

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The Arctic Circle was founded in Los Angeles in 1970 as a private art gallery devoted entirely to the exhibition and sale of scupltures and graphics by Inuit artists of the Canadian arctic. Between 1970 and the late 1980's approximately six to eight exhibitions were mounted on themes illustrative of native life in the Canadian arctic. The gallery was created and founded by Bert and Ellen Witt and run out of their home on North La Jolla Avenue in Los Angeles, California. Bert Witt, sometimes acco...

Ashevak, Karoo, 1940-

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Pitseolak, Peter, 1902-1973

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Witt, Bert

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Pudlo, 1916-1992

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Witt, Ellen, 1917-2007

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