Possibly a Clam Digger

Unknown people (Northwest Coast)
Northwest Coast

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collected late 1920s-1945

Stone, rawhide, canvas, and string

Overall: 35 × 3 in. (88.9 × 7.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Doris Meltzer

163.22.15075

Geography

Place Made: Northwest Coast, United States, North America

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Northwest Coast

Not on view

Exhibition History

People of Potlatch, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Sandwich, Massachusetts, May 10, 1987-October 25, 1988.

Provenance

Collected by Axel Rasmussen, in the 1920's and 1930's [until his death in 1945]; Earl Stendahl; to Doris Meltzer, Meltzer Gallery, New York; given to present collection, 1963.

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