Fishhook Decorated with an Ivory Seal
Unknown people (Alaska Native), Alaska, Arctic
late 19th or early 20th century
Brass, copper, ivory, and sinew
Overall: 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
29.58.7934
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing
Classification
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Course History
ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2013
ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2012
Exhibition History
Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Juanuary 27-May 13,2007.
Survival/Art/History: American Indian Collections from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 18, 2000-April 7, 2002.
Anthropology of Religion, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Anthropology 48, March 30-May 2, 2004.
Publication History
Robert L. Welsch and Luis A. Vivanco, Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, 461 pp., ill. p. 359.
Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, cover, no.20.
Provenance
Source unknown [possibly New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire]; catalogued, 1929.
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