Bone Armor Plate (3 pieces)

St. Lawrence Island Yupik
Arctic
Western Arctic

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collected 1967

Bone

Overall: 6 5/16 × 1 3/4 in. (16 × 4.5 cm)

Overall: 5 1/2 × 1 13/16 in. (14 × 4.6 cm)

Overall: 5 7/8 × 1 15/16 in. (15 × 5 cm)

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

168.96.24584

Geography

Place Made: Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Armament

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Provenance

Purchased in Gambell, Alaska by Sherman Post Haight (1889-1980) and Anne Pardee Lyon Haight (1891-1977), New York, New York, Summer 1967; given to the Stefansson Collection, Dartmouth College Library, 1967; transferred to the present collection, 1968.

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