Adze

Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic

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collected about 1967

Bone, stone, and fur

Overall: 5 7/8 × 2 3/16 × 1 in. (15 × 5.5 × 2.5 cm)

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

168.96.24556

Geography

Place Made: Kotzebue, Kotzebue Sound, United States, North America

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Woodworking

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Exhibition History

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.

Provenance

Purchased from Mrs. Hunter, Kotzebue, 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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