Bessie Moses' Cutting Board used in Cutting Skins

James Kivetoruk Moses, Iñupiaq / American, 1902-1982
Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic

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1935

Wood

Overall: 15 3/4 × 4 × 9/16 in. (40 × 10.2 × 1.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Sally Carrighar

166.43.16144

Geography

Place Made: Shishmaref, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Inscriptions

Marked "B.M. 1935"

Provenance

Made by James Kivetoruk Moses (1902-1982) for his wife Bessie Aden Ahgupuk Moses (1907-1985), in 1935; collected by Sally Carrighar (1895-1985) writer and naturalist who spent ten years in the Arctic; given to present collection, 1966.

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