Hook for Hook game

Tanana
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic

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collected 1929-1930

Wood, sinew

Overall: 11 13/16 × 2 3/8 × 3/16 in. (30 × 6 × 0.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Robert A. McKennan, Class of 1925

30.2.24747

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Recreational Artifacts: Game

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Subarctic

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Professor Robert Addison McKennan [Dartmouth Class of 1925, 1903-1982) [during his field research studying the Tanana and Chandalar people of the Upper Tanana River, Alaska], 1929-1930; given to present collection, 1930.

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