Fishhook with Metal Barb and Braided Sinew Leader

Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic

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collected 1905

Ivory, sinew, iron, and possibly copper

Overall: 3 15/16 × 9/16 in. (10 × 1.5 cm)

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

46.17.9646

Geography

Place Made: Point Barrow, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Exhibition History

Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 1-4, 1991.

Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 14-18, 1992.

Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 15-16, 1993.

Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 18-21, 1994.

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.

Publication History

Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 64, no.19.

Provenance

Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Point Barrow, Alaska, probably 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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