Rabbit Snare
Tanana
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic
collected 1929-1930
Sinew, wood
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Robert A. McKennan, Class of 1925
30.2.24751
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Subarctic
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 12.11, NAS 30, Arctic Crossroads: Its Peoples, Cultures, and History, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2015
Provenance
Collected by Professor Robert Addison McKennan [Dartmouth Class of 1925, 1903-1982) [during his field research studying the Tanana and Chandalar people of the Upper Tanana River, Alaska], 1929-1930; given to present collection, 1930.
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