One-handed Scraper made from a Caribou Tibia

Gwich'in
Chandalar Kutchin
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic

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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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