Souvenir Model Kayak

Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic

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about 1897

Hide gut (intestines), wood, ivory, and sinew

Overall: 2 3/8 × 1 7/8 × 15 7/8 in. (6 × 4.7 × 40.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. William Stickney, Class of 1900W

164.21.15446

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

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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