Man's Knife
Kitlinermiut (Copper Inuit)
Central Arctic
Arctic
collected 1953-1962
Bone, slate, copper
Overall: 9 13/16 × 2 3/8 × 11/16 in. (25 × 6 × 1.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection
168.94.24470
Geography
Place Made: Bathurst Inlet, Kitikmeot, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Processing
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Exhibition History
Peoples and Cultures of the Northwest Coast and Arctic Regions, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-October 14, 1990.
Peoples and Cultures of the Plains, Northwest Coast, and Arctic Region, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Native American Studies 21 / Anthropology 40, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 30-December 20, 1992.
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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