Amulet in Form of a Fetal Caribou
Iñupiaq or Yup'ik
Western Arctic
Arctic
late 19th century
Ivory and black pigment
Overall: 3 × 13/16 in. (7.6 × 2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26155
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Symbol: Amulet
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Exhibition History
Reindeer People-A Fight to Survive, Norwich Public Library, Norwich, Vermont, January 19- February 16, 2001.
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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