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1948

Sinew and Moose hide

Overall: 10 7/16 × 5 1/2 × 6 11/16 in. (26.5 × 14 × 17 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

48.50.10969

Geography

Place Made: Whitehorse, Canada, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Clothing: Footwear

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Subarctic

Not on view

Publication History

Elmer Harp, Jr., North to the Yukon Territory via the Alcan Highway in 1948: Field Notes of The Andover-Harvard Expedition, Occasional Papers in Archaeology No. 14.

Provenance

Puchased for the Dartmouth College Museum by Elmer Harp, Jr. (1913-2009), during the 1948 Andover-Harvard Yukon Expedition, in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, September 1948.

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