Stone cooking pot, or qilissiut
cookware
4 1/2 x 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. (11 x 25 x 17 cm)Inuit (aka Eskimo, Inuk) Primary
Object Type:
cookware
Creation Places:
North America
Medium and Support:
stone
Credit Line:
Gift of Donald and Miriam MacMillan
Accession Number:
1966.63
A deep pot carved from soapstone covered with lichen, this serves as an all-purpose pot for heating water and cooking meat as well as serving it. There are holes drilled in each corner for suspension. A hole in the bottom means the pot, or qilissuit, was "killed" once its owner could no longer use it.
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Gallery C 1967-1998 , 1/1/1967 - 7/1/1998
- Down the Labrador: MacMillan in the Big Land The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum , 11/12/1999 - 9/2/2001
- This Extraordinary Paradise: Living in Northwest Greenland , 10/19/2005 - 10/14/2007
- Northward Over the Great Ice The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum , 4/17/2008 - 9/5/2010
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