Fishing Lure
Kitlinermiut (Copper Inuit)
Central Arctic
Arctic
Walrus tooth
Overall: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Elmer Harp Jr.
165.38.15736
Geography
Place Found: Coppermine River, Coronation Gulf, Canada, North America
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Exhibition History
Peoples and Cultures of the Northwest Coast and Arctic Regions, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-October 14, 1990.
Peoples and Cultures of the Plains, Northwest Coast, and Arctic Region, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Native American Studies 21 / Anthropology 40, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 30-December 20, 1992.
Regional Selections 30, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 7-August 3, 2003.
Provenance
Elmer Harp, Jr., Professor of Anthropology, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1965.
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