Ice Scratcher

Iñupiaq or Yup'ik
Western Arctic
Arctic

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collected late 1930s

Wood. seal claws, and twine

Overall: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Corey Ford, Class of 1921H

169.75.24830

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Course History

ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2012

NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Spring 2012

NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2013

NAS 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Medeia Krisztina C. DeHass, Spring 2013

ENVS 80, BIOL 148, Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics, Ross Virginia, Spring 2013

NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015

NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015

ENVS 15, Environmental Issues: Earth's Cold Region, Spring 2019

WRIT 7.28, Team Communication & Identity: One Team, Two Teams, Red Team, Blue Team, Svetlana Grushina, Winter 2020

Arctic Health Conference Viewing, Winter 2020

WRIT 7.28, Team Communication & Identity: One Team, Two Teams, Red Team, Blue Team, Svetlana Grushina, Spring 2021

ANTH 74, The Human Spectrum, Nate Dominy, Spring 2022

COCO 21, What's In Your Shoebox?, Francine A'Ness and Mokhtar Bouba, Spring 2022

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.

Survival/Art/History: American Indian Collections from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 18, 2000-April 7, 2002.

Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Juanuary 27-May 13,2007.

Tradition and Transformation: Twentieth Century Inuit Art from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Gene Y. Kin Class of 1985 Gallery, Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 22, 2014-December 6, 2015.

Publication History

Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 64, no.12.

Provenance

Collected by Corey Ford (1902-1969, Class of 1921H), late 1930's; Estate of Corey Ford, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection,1969.

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