Bone (possibly ivory) Socket for Adze

Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic

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Bone

Length: 4 in. (10.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

163.53.15333

Geography

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

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Woodworking

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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