Root Club (made for sale)
possibly Penobscot
Wabanaki
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
1900
Varnished birch tree root
Overall: 21 5/8 × 7 7/8 × 5 7/8 in. (55 × 20 × 15 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Miss Helen Toussaint
172.36.25441A
Geography
Place Made: York Harbor, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Armament
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Publication History
Michael J. Caduto, A Time Before New Hampshire: The Story of a Land and Native Peoples, Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 2003, 266 pp., ill. p. 176.
Provenance
Collected in York Harbor, Maine, about 1900 by Helen Toussaint (1927-1990), Goshen, New Hampshire ; given to present collection, 1972.
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