Pipe with Bowl in Shape of Walrus Head with a Hinged Cover in Shape of a Face (made for sale)
Iñupiaq or Yup'ik
Western Arctic
Arctic
early 20th century
Walrus ivory, wood, and pigment
Overall: 3 1/4 × 1 1/4 × 12 1/2 in. (8.3 × 3.2 × 31.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26114
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Pipe
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; 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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