Hoop Rattle
Tlingit or Sugpiaq (Alutiiq)
collected 1820-1860
Puffin beaks, wood, and grass
Overall: 9 7/16 in. (24 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly
22.3.1960
Geography
Place Made: Aleutian Islands, Canada, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Musical Instrument
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Exhibition History
People of Potlatch, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Sandwich, Massachusetts, May 10, 1987-October 25, 1988.
Provenance
Collected by "an old sea captain," about 1820-1860; to General John Hewston, California; bequeathed to his niece, Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly (1851-1927), West Newton, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1922.
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