War Pick

Unknown people (Northwest Coast)
First Nation
Northwest Coast

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19th century

Whale bone

Overall: 15 7/16 × 1 9/16 in. (39.2 × 4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III

181.2.26116

Geography

Place Made: Northwest Coast, Canada, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: War Pick

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Northwest Coast

Not on view

Exhibition History

Montshire: Educational Program, Montshire Museum of Science, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 4-December 5, 1988.

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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