Ivory Cribbage Board: Paired Holes with a Human Head, Green Leaves and a Seal; Reverse: Scene of a Man with a Whip with Two Dogs and a Reindeer and a Hunter Aiming a Bow and Arrow at a Brown Bear and Two Seals

Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic

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collected 1905

Walrus ivory engraved with black, red and green pigment

Overall: 13 3/4 × 1 15/16 × 1 3/16 in. (35 × 5 × 3 cm)

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

46.17.9690

Geography

Place Made: Shishmaref, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Recreational Artifacts: Game

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Course History

ANTH 12.11, NAS 30, Arctic Crossroads: Its Peoples, Cultures, and History, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2015

ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022

GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022

ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022

ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022

ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022

ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022

ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022

SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022

Exhibition History

This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–July 22, 2022.

Provenance

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

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