Head for Root Pick
Iñupiaq or Yup'ik
Western Arctic
Arctic
Bone
Overall: 15 1/16 × 1 7/16 × 1 1/16 in. (38.3 × 3.6 × 2.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert Leavitt
160.25.14594
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Agricultural
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Provenance
Probably collected by Clara G. and Frank C. Churchill, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Robert Hayes Leavitt, Lebanon, New Hampshire [found in the Churchill house by his father, who worked for the Churchill's]; given to present collection, 1960.
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