Rubbing Tool

Iñupiaq, St. Lawrence Island Yupik or Yup'ik
Western Arctic
Arctic

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19th century

Mineralized Ivory

Overall: 5 7/8 × 1 9/16 in. (15 × 4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III

181.2.26101

Geography

Place Made: St. Lawrence Island, United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Provenance

Benjamin F. Hubbel Collection, Hartford, Connecticut; collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.

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