Souvenir Model of a Hunting Blind with Gun Prop on Sled Runners

Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic

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collected 1938-1939

Wood, cotton cloth, twine, leather lines

Overall: 9 5/8 × 9 13/16 × 19 9/16 in. (24.5 × 25 × 49.7 cm)

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

39.70.7907

Geography

Place Made: Greenland, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Model

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern

Not on view

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.

Publication History

Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 64, no. 11.

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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