Laurel leaf shaped point

Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic

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collected 1905

Chert stone

Overall: 4 13/16 × 3 × 3/4 in. (12.3 × 7.6 × 1.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill

46.17.9598

Geography

Place Found: Nuvuk (Point Barrow), United States, North America

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Archaeology

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Course History

ANTH 05, Introduction to Archaeology, Nathaniel Kitchel, Summer 2019

Provenance

Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Lebanon, New Hampshire, 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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