One-handed Scraper made from a Caribou Tibia
Gwich'in
Chandalar Kutchin
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic
collected 1933
Caribou bone, cloth
Overall: 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Robert A. McKennan, Class of 1925
33.2.4638
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Scraper
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
Exhibition History
Reindeer People-A Fight to Survive, Norwich Public Library, Norwich, Vermont, January 19- February 16, 2001.
Provenance
Collected by Professor Robert Addison McKennan [Dartmouth Class of 1925, 1903-1982), during his field research studying the Chandalar Kutchin people, Alaska, Summer 1933; given to present collection, 1933.
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