Seal Drag
Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker, Eastern Arctic, Arctic
about 1897
Twisted seal sinew cord, seal skin, bone, and grass
Overall: 59 7/16 in. (151 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Mrs. William Stickney, Class of 1900W
164.21.15447
Geography/Culture
North America, Greenland
Period
19th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing
Classification
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by William Stickney, Class of 1900 (1878-1924), as a member [as a Dartmouth student] of Robert E. Peary's 1897 Arctic Expedition, 1897; to his wife, Jean Aiken Stickney (1886-unknown), Rutland, Vermont, at the time of his death in 1924; given to present collection, 1964.
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