Souvenir Model Dog Sled and Team
Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
about 1897
Wood, fur, seal skin, ivory (probably walrus), commercial thread
Overall: 2 3/4 × 3 7/16 × 17 7/8 in. (7 × 8.8 × 45.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. William Stickney, Class of 1900W
164.21.15445
Geography
Place Made: Greenland, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Model
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Exhibition History
Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Juanuary 27-May 13,2007.
Tradition and Transformation: Twentieth Century Inuit Art from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Gene Y. Kin Class of 1985 Gallery, Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 22, 2014-December 6, 2015.
Publication History
Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 62, no. 6.
Provenance
Collected by William Stickney, Class of 1900 (1878-1924), as a member [as a Dartmouth student] of Robert E. Peary's 1897 Arctic Expedition, 1897; to his wife, Jean Aiken Stickney (1886-unknown), Rutland, Vermont, at the time of his death in 1924; given to present collection, 1964.
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