Girl's Boots, Part of a Girl's Costume made for Mona Jean Lloyd (Mollerup)
Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
1945
Seal skin, hide, cotton cloth, silk, lace, dye, embroidery thread, thread
Overall: 23 7/16 × 9 1/16 × 8 7/16 in. (59.5 × 23 × 21.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mona Lloyd
157.14.13901
Geography
Place Made: Nuuk, Greenland, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Footwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 12.11, NAS 30, Arctic Crossroads: Its Peoples, Cultures, and History, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2015
Exhibition History
Dartmouth in the Arctic, at the Institute on Canada & United States, Dickey Endowment, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 15-October 15, 1989.
Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.
Provenance
Made for Mona Jean Lloyd (Mollerup), daughter of Dartmouth Professor Trevor Lloyd (1906-1995), Canadian Consul in Greenland, in Godthaab, Greenland, about 1945; given to present collection, 1957.
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