Gut Cleaner and sample of gut
St. Lawrence Island Yupik or Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic
collected about 1967
Ivory, twine, and gut (intestine)
Overall: 9 13/16 × 13/16 in. (25 × 2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection
168.96.24553
Geography
Place Made: St. Lawrence Island, United States, North America
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Exhibition History
Montshire Museum of Science Exhibition
Provenance
Purchased from John Sackett, Fairbanks, Alaska 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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