Wood Box in Shape of Walrus

Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic

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Archaeological

Wood

Overall: 7 × 2 1/2 in. (17.8 × 6.4 cm)

Overall: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

163.53.15270

Geography

Place Made: Tikigaq (Tigara) Village, Point Hope, United States, North America

Object Name

Personal Gear: Box

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Don Charles Foote [1931-1969, Dartmouth Class of 1953], McGill University, Montreal, Canada for the Dartmouth College Museum; sold to present collection, 1963.

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