Seal
Canadian Inuit
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
collected 1948
Steatite
Overall: 4 1/2 × 1 11/16 in. (11.5 × 4.3 cm)
Overall: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Robert J. Poor
164.24.15477
Geography
Place Made: Canada, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Sculpture
Not on view
Provenance
Collected about 1948; Harold C. Craig, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Professor Robert J. Poor, Hanover, New Hampshire [Dartmouth Professor of Art History, 1961-65]; given to present collection, 1964.
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