Decorated Cribbage Board, decorated on one side with a Dog Sled and a Totem Pole; on the other side with a Landscape of the Mountains and Sea Ice

Unknown people (Alaska Native)
Western Arctic
Arctic

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1867-1875

Ivory

Overall: 8 1/8 × 1 9/16 × 11/16 in. (20.7 × 4 × 1.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Warren Prosser Smith, Class of 1913

169.30.24700

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Recreational Artifacts: Game

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Course History

HIST 63.02, Material Culture of Science, Whitney Robles, Spring 2022

HIST 63.02, Material Culture of Science, Whitney Robles, Spring 2022

Provenance

Collected by Caldwell W. Tuttle (1842-1919), Commissioner of Sitka, Alaska,1897-1900; to his nephew Warren Prosser Smith, Dartmouth Class of 1913 (1890-1971) New York, New York; given to present collection, 1969. (donation arranged through the donor's daughter Joan Paris Smith Rath (1916-1979)

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