Three-Hatch Kayak Model
Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Western Arctic, Arctic
mid-19th century
Skin kayak cover, wood, gut (intestines), sinew, and pigment
Overall: 11 5/8 × 7 13/16 × 55 1/2 in. (29.5 × 19.8 × 141 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Captain Worthen Hall and Polly D. Lovewell Hall
13.1.591
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Model
Classification
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
On view
Course History
Food Sovereignty Session, Spring 2019
Exhibition History
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. 27, no.48.
Provenance
Source unknown, in the Dartmouth College Museum collection by the late 19th century; probably collected by the Whaling Captain Worthen Hall (1802-1887), Croydon, New Hampshire [who sailed with his wife Polly D. Lovewell Hall (1807-1886) and his daughter], in the northwest Pacific between 1848-1855; given to his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Hall Hubbard (1849-about 1889), Croydon, New Hampshire [to be credited as a gift from her parents]; bequeathed to present collection, 1889; catalogued, 1913.
Old Number
Red #13.23
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