Hunting Bag (also called Work Bag)
Sugpiaq (Alutiiq)
Western Arctic
Arctic
about 1850
Hide, gut [sea mammal inner membrane (intestine, throat, etc.)], cotton trade cloth, sinew, Wild rye grass (Elyleymus aleuticus), wool thread, vermilion, ground spectacular hematite, dye, thread, sinew handle, caribou hair
Overall: 6 7/8 × 5 9/16 × 22 5/8 in. (17.5 × 14.2 × 57.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Captain Worthen Hall and Polly D. Lovewell Hall
13.1.581
Geography
Place Made: Kodiak Island, United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Bag
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Inscriptions
Paper label with bag: "Tobacco bag of seal entrails, Kodiak, Alaska
Course History
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2013
NAS 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Medeia Krisztina C. DeHass, Spring 2013
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015
Exhibition History
Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.
Publication History
George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. on p. 84 and p. 137, no. 2.
Provenance
Source unknown, in the Dartmouth College Museum collection by the late 19th century; probably collected by the Whaling Captain Worthen Hall (1802-1887), Croydon, New Hampshire [who sailed with his wife Polly D. Lovewell Hall (1807-1886) and his daughter], in the northwest Pacific between 1848-1855; given to his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Hall Hubbard (1849-about 1889), Croydon, New Hampshire [to be credited as a gift from her parents]; bequeathed to present collection, 1889; catalogued, 1913.
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