Souvenir Model Thule Kayak with a Triangular Shaped Cockpit
Unidentified Inughuit (North Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
about 1924
Seal skin, wood, sinew, nails, iron wire
Overall: 44 5/8 × 3 5/16 × 4 5/8 in. (113.3 × 8.4 × 11.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lei and Paul Goddard, Class of 1955
182.3.26310
Geography
Place Made: Greenland, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Model
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Exhibition History
Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Juanuary 27-May 13,2007.
Publication History
Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 76, no.63.
Provenance
Collected by Professor Richard Halsey Goddard (1897-1983), Dartmouth Physics Department, on the Greenland MacMillan Expedition, 1923-1924; to Paul and Lei Goddard, Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York [son]; given to present collection, 1982.
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