Souvenir Crochet Hook with Spiral Design
Unidentified Inughuit (North Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
collected 1949
Ivory (possibly walrus ivory)
Overall: 5 3/16 × 1/4 in. (13.2 × 0.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Thomas B. Armstrong, Class of 1950
157.36.14196
Geography
Place Made: Greenland, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Textileworking
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Provenance
Acquired [by trade] by Thomas B. Armstrong (1925-2010, Class of 1950), as a student assistant with the Weather Bureau's re-supply expedition on the USCGC Edisto to Thule, Greenland, 1949; given to present collection, 1957.
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