Child's Toy Knife
Canadian Inuit
Central Arctic
Arctic
collected 1953-1962
Ivory
Overall: 3 3/8 × 3/8 × 3/16 in. (8.5 × 1 × 0.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Sherman P. and Anne L. Haight Arctic Collection
168.94.24522
Geography
Place Made: Canada, North America
Object Name
Recreational Artifact: Toy
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
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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