Belt with a Buckle made of Baleen

Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic

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collected 1948-1957

Woven leather, seal skin with a whale baleen buckle

Overall: 2 in. (5.1 cm)

Overall: 1 7/16 × 1/16 in. (3.6 × 0.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Sally Carrighar

166.43.16132

Geography

Place Made: Kivalina, Kotzebue Sound, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Clothing: Accessory

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Provenance

Sally Carrighar (1895-1985) writer and naturalist who spent ten years in the Arctic; given to present collection, 1966.

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