Fish Spear
Canadian Inuit
Central Arctic
Arctic
collected 1953-1962
Wood, metal, bone
Overall: 18 7/8 × 5 1/8 × 1 1/16 in. (48 × 13 × 2.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection
168.94.24486
Geography
Place Made: Chantrey Inlet, Kitikmeot, Canada, North America
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing
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
Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 1-4, 1991.
Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 14-18, 1992.
Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 15-16, 1993.
Arctic Day, Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, February 18-21, 1994
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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