Child's Doll
Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
1400-1600, or ealier
Wood
Overall: 6 1/8 × 1 7/16 in. (15.5 × 3.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. William Stickney, Class of 1900W
164.21.15449
Geography
Place Made: Greenland, North America
Object Name
Recreational Artifacts: Toy, Doll
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 11/NAS 11, Ancient Native Americans, Deb Nichols, Winter 2019
Exhibition History
Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.
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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