Non-Traditional Woman's Purse (Made for the Retail Market)
Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
about 1945
Seal skin, leather, and printed cotton cloth
Overall: 7 5/16 × 7 1/16 in. (18.5 × 18 cm)
Overall: 9 13/16 in. (25 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Joan G. and Trevor Lloyd
159.45.14671
Geography
Place Made: Nuuk, 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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