Raw Copper

Kitlinermiut (Copper Inuit)
Central Arctic
Arctic

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collected 1953-1962

Pounded copper

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection

168.94.24514

Geography

Place Found: Coppermine River, Coronation Gulf, Canada, North America

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern

Not on view

Exhibition History

Material Culture of the Eskimo, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1962.

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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