Soapstone Dish fragments used for Cooking
Unidentified Inughuit (North Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
1600 - 1800
Soapstone and caribou sinew thread
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Richard H. Goddard, Class of 1920
158.36.14273
Geography
Place Made: Refuge Harbor, Greenland, North America
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Processing
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Professor Richard Halsey Goddard (1897-1983, Class of 1920), Dartmouth Physics Department, on the Greenland MacMillan Expedition, 1923-1924; given to present collection, 1958.
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