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Unidentified Inughuit (North Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic

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collected 1949

Ivory

Overall: 6 × 3/4 in. (15.3 × 1.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Thomas B. Armstrong, Class of 1950

157.36.14197

Geography

Place Made: Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Bay, Greenland, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Model

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern

Not on view

Provenance

Acquired [by trade] by Thomas B. Armstrong (1925-2010, Class of 1950), as a student assistant with the Weather Bureau's re-supply expedition on the USCGC Edisto to Thule, Greenland, 1949; given to present collection, 1957.

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