Non-Traditional Woman's Purse (Made for Retail Market)
Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
collected 1945
Seal skin, cloth, ivory, leather, and dye
Overall: 10 1/16 × 11 1/4 in. (25.5 × 28.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Joan G. and Trevor Lloyd
159.45.14669
Geography
Place Made: Sisimiut, Greenland, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Purse
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Provenance
Collected in Greenland by Joan Glassco Lloyd and Professor Trevor Lloyd (1906-1995), Canadian Consul, 1945; given to present collection, 1959.
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