Child's Doll

Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic

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1400-1600, or ealier

Wood

Overall: 6 1/8 × 1 7/16 in. (15.5 × 3.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. William Stickney, Class of 1900W

164.21.15449

Geography

Place Made: Greenland, North America

Object Name

Recreational Artifacts: Toy, Doll

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern

Not on view

Course History

ANTH 11/NAS 11, Ancient Native Americans, Deb Nichols, Winter 2019

Exhibition History

Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.

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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