Souvenir Miniature Indoor Girl's Shoes

Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic

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about 1945

Seal hide, dog fur, cloth, and pigment

Overall: 1 15/16 × 1 7/16 × 4 in. (5 × 3.7 × 10.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Joan G. and Trevor Lloyd

159.45.14672

Geography

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

Period

20th century

Object Name

Clothing: Footwear

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern

Not on view

Provenance

Made for Mona Lloyd in Greenland; collected by her parents, Joan Glassco Lloyd and Professor Trevor Lloyd (1906-1995), Canadian Consul, 1945; given to present collection, 1959.

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