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
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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