Souvenir Kayak Model with Harpoon, Lance and Line Coiler
Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker, Eastern Arctic, Arctic
collected 1938-1939
Hide, wood, ivory, and sinew
Overall: 2 3/8 × 3 3/4 × 28 1/4 in. (6 × 9.6 × 71.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of George Murphy, Class of 1941
39.70.7905
Geography/Culture
North America, Greenland
Period
20th century
Object Name
Model
Classification
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Exhibition History
Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 18-21, 1994.
Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 15-16, 1993.
Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 14-18, 1992.
Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 1-4, 1991.
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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