Souvenir Model One Man Kayak
Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
about 1897
Seal skin, wood, ivory, metal pieces
Overall: 3 1/16 × 3 5/16 × 33 3/4 in. (7.8 × 8.4 × 85.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. William Stickney, Class of 1900W
164.21.15434
Geography
Place Made: Greenland, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Model
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 11, NAS 11, Ancient Native Americans, Deborah Nichols, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2013
ENVS 15, Environmental Issues: Earth's Cold Region, Spring 2019
Arctic Health Conference Viewing, Winter 2020
ANTH 74, The Human Spectrum, Nate Dominy, Spring 2022
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. 62, no. 9.
Provenance
Collected by William Stickney, Class of 1900 (1878-1924), as a member [as a Dartmouth student] of Robert E. Peary's 1897 Arctic Expedition, 1897; to his wife, Jean Aiken Stickney (1886-unknown), Rutland, Vermont, at the time of his death in 1924; given to present collection, 1964.
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