Souvenir Model Kayak with Paddler and Equipment for Seal Hunting
Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
collected 1950
Wood, seal skin, gut (intestines), bone, and steel
Overall: 1 1/2 × 1 15/16 × 23 1/4 in. (3.8 × 5 × 59 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Peter S. Dow, Thayer School, Class of 1911
50.14.12412
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
Course History
ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2012
ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2013
Exhibition History
Peoples and Cultures of the Northwest Coast and Arctic Regions, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-October 14, 1990.
Peoples and Cultures of the Plains, Northwest Coast, and Arctic Region, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Native American Studies 21 / Anthropology 40, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 30-December 20, 1992.
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
Artic Institute Poster & Mailing. Micheal Amberger, Office of Instructional Services, N. Fairbanks Hall (646-3606).
Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 11, no.25.
Provenance
Collected in Greenland by the donor's brother, name unknown, June 1950; to Professor Peter Staub Dow [1887-1980, Thayer 1911); given to present collection, 1950.
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