Ivory Chain
Iñupiaq, St. Lawrence Island Yupik or Yup'ik
Western Arctic
Arctic
collected about 1917-1931
Ivory
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. James Foster Scott, in memory of her late husband, Victor J. Evans
157.9.13869
Geography
Place Made: St. Lawrence Island, United States, North America
Object Name
Tools and Equipment
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Victor Justice Evans (1865-1931), Washington, D.C, date unknown; to his widow, (Mabel) Karen Gram Schaefer Evans Scott Allen (1891-1974), Meriden, New Hampshire, 1931; given to present collection, 1957.
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