Jacket, part of a Girl's Costume made for Mona Jean Lloyd (Mollerup)
Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
1945
Felt, cotton cloth, silk, dog fur or seal skin, and glass beads
Overall: 21 1/4 in. (54 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mona Lloyd
157.14.13897
Geography
Place Made: Nuuk, Greenland, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Outerwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Exhibition History
Dartmouth in the Arctic, at the Institute on Canada & United States, Dickey Endowment, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 15-October 15, 1989.
Provenance
Made for Mona Jean Lloyd (Mollerup), daughter of Dartmouth Professor Trevor Lloyd (1906-1995), Canadian Consul in Greenland, in Godthaab, Greenland, about 1945; given to present collection, 1957.
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