Wall Hanging Sewing Bag
Canadian Inuit
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
collected 1929-1930
Tanned caribou hide, seal skin, cotton cloth, ribbon, glass beads, and thread
Overall: 6 1/4 × 8 11/16 in. (15.8 × 22 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert O. Fernald, Class of 1936
158.25.14211
Geography
Place Made: Labrador or Baffin Island, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Sewing
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Dr. Adelbert W. Fernald (1871-1958) on the 1929 and 1930 MacMillan Expeditions to Baffin Island and Labrador, given to his son Robert Osborn Fernald (1914-2003, Class of 1936), Punta Gorda, Florida; given to present collection, 1958.
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