Ivory Skin Scraper
Iñupiaq, St. Lawrence Island Yupik or Yup'ik
Western Arctic
Arctic
early 20th century
Walrus ivory
Overall: 7 5/8 × 15/16 in. (19.3 × 2.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26104
Geography
Place Made: St. Lawrence Island, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Scraper
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed: GLOVER HASTINGS; in ink: Eskimo Scraper
Provenance
Charles J. Frisbie (1895-1964), Seattle, Washington; collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1939; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.
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