Ivory Plate Armor (18 rectangular pieces)
Iñupiaq, Western Arctic, Arctic
collected about 1967
Walrus ivory
Overall: 4 1/8 × 1 × 1/8 in. (10.5 × 2.5 × 0.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection
168.96.24541
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Object Name
Armament
Classification
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Provenance
Purchased by Sherman Post Haight (1889-1980) and Anne Pardee Lyon Haight (1891-1977), New York, New York, about 1967 in Juneau, Alaska ("said to have come from an old man who had lived in Diomede Islands years ago"); given to the Stefansson Collection, Dartmouth College Library, 1962; transferred to the present collection, 1968.
Old Number
Old No. 2
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