Skin Scraper
Kitlinermiut (Copper Inuit)
Central Arctic
Arctic
collected 1965
Wooden handle, recycled metal sheet, screw, rope
Overall: 11 in. (27.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Elmer Harp Jr.
165.38.15682
Geography
Place Found: Tree River, Coronation Gulf, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Scraper
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
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. 74, no.56.
Provenance
Elmer Harp, Jr., Professor of Anthropology, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1965.
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