Pipe Decorated with Incised Designs and Carved Seals (made for sale)

Iñupiaq or Yup'ik
Western Arctic
Arctic

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about 1920

Walrus ivory, wood, graphite, pigment

Overall: 2 1/16 × 1 × 8 9/16 in. (5.3 × 2.5 × 21.8 cm)

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

181.2.26113

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Personal Gear: Pipe

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, underneath white label: in black ink: "Esqvimo Pipe J-10"

Provenance

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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