Souvenir Model Umiak with Four Women, One Man, a Dog, and Camp Equipment
Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
early-mid-20th century
Seal skin, wood, cloth, metal, hair (?)
Overall: 4 3/16 × 5 1/2 × 37 13/16 in. (10.6 × 13.9 × 96 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of David C. Nutt, Class of 1941
159.9.14387
Geography
Place Made: Greenland, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Model
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Course History
ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2012
ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2013
ANTH 11, NAS 11, Ancient Native Americans, Deborah Nichols, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2013
ANTH 12.11, NAS 30, Arctic Crossroads: Its Peoples, Cultures, and History, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2015
ENVS 15, Environmental Issues: Earth's Cold Region, Spring 2019
Arctic Health Conference Viewing, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Juanuary 27-May 13,2007.
Publication History
Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 28, no.46.
Provenance
Collected by David C. Nutt (1919-2008, Dartmouth Class of 1941; Arctic Specialist, Dartmouth College Museum, 1947-1955; Research Associate, Geography Department, 1955-1976), given to present collection, 1959.
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