Woman's Knife (Ulu)
Kitlinermiut (Copper Inuit)
Central Arctic
Arctic
collected 1953-1962
Bone, horn, copper, iron
Overall: 5 1/8 × 3 3/4 × 13/16 in. (13 × 9.5 × 2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection
168.94.24462
Geography
Place Made: Bathurst Inlet, Kitikmeot, Canada, North America
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Processing
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Course History
Art History 38.04, Food and Art: Global History, Nicola Camerlenghi, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
Material Culture of the Eskimo, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1962.
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.
Publication History
Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 70, no.38.
Provenance
Collected by Sherman Post Haight (1889-1980) and Anne Pardee Lyon Haight (1891-1977), New York, New York, about 1962; given to the Stefansson Collection, Dartmouth College Library, 1962; transferred to the present collection, 1968.
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