Fish Spear

Canadian Inuit
Central Arctic
Arctic

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collected 1953-1962

Wood, metal, bone

Overall: 18 7/8 × 5 1/8 × 1 1/16 in. (48 × 13 × 2.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection

168.94.24486

Geography

Place Made: Chantrey Inlet, Kitikmeot, Canada, North America

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern

Not on view

Course History

ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2012

ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2013

Exhibition History

Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 1-4, 1991.

Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 14-18, 1992.

Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 15-16, 1993.

Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 18-21, 1994

Provenance

Collected by Sherman Post Haight (1889-1980) and Anne Pardee Lyon Haight (1891-1977), New York, New York, about 1962; given to the Stefansson Collection, Dartmouth College Library, 1962; transferred to the present collection, 1968.

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