Double-eye block used for the rigging of an umiak (angyaq "open skin boat" in Yupik)

St. Lawrence Island Yupik
Western Arctic
Arctic

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collected 1905

Ivory

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill

46.17.9664

Geography

Place Made: St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, United States, North America

Object Name

Transportation: Water

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Provenance

Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, July, 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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