Head of a Huskie Dog
Canadian Inuit
Arctic
collected 1953-1962
Stone
Overall: 2 3/4 × 2 3/8 × 1 9/16 in. (7 × 6 × 4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection
168.94.24435
Geography
Place Made: Kinngait, Dorset Island, Baffin Island, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Sculpture
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 3, Intro to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Winter 2019
ANTH 3, Intro to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Winter 2019
ANTH 3, Intro to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Winter 2019
Provenance
Collected by Sherman Post Haight (1889-1980) and Anne Pardee Lyon Haight (1891-1977), New York, New York, about 1962; given to the Stefansson Collection, Dartmouth College Library, 1962; transferred to the present collection, 1968.
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