Non-Traditional Woman's Purse (Made for Retail Market)
Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
collected 1953
Seal skin, leather, ivory, embroidery and cloth applique
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ellen M. Griswold
168.64.24389
Geography
Place Made: Greenland, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Purse
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Evelyn and Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Greenland, Summer 1953; given to Ellen M. Griswold (Mrs. John A.), Norwich, Vermont; given to present collection, 1968.
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