Boy's Everyday Boots

Unidentified Inughuit (North Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic

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collected 1938-1939

Seal skin and thread

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of George Murphy, Class of 1941

39.70.7889

Geography

Place Made: Cape York region, Greenland, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Clothing: Footwear

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by George Frost Murphy, Jr. (1918-2001, Class of 1941) on the McMillan Expedition, 1938-39; given to present collection, 1939.

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