Two Napkins Rings. A: Depicting a Reindeer and Bear; B: Depicting a Seal and Mammal (Wolverine or Fox)
Iñupiaq or Yup'ik
Western Arctic
Arctic
collected 1905
Walrus ivory
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9696
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Service
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022
GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022
Exhibition History
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–July 22, 2022.
Provenance
Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Alaska, probably 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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