Scrimshaw Whale`s Tooth with a Partially Engraved Ship
Iñupiaq or Yup‘ik, Alaska, Arctic
19th century
Whale Tooth
Overall: 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Captain Worthen Hall and Polly D. Lovewell Hall
13.9.723
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Decorative Object
Classification
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 83, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2015
ARTH 82, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2012
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], about 1827-1855; 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 #13.84, Black 13-9-723
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