Kayak Knife, Used to Remove Ice from a Kayak
Unidentified Kalaallit (West Greenlandic Inuit) maker
Eastern Arctic
Arctic
collected 1938-1939
Bone (possibly a small whale bone) and hide
Overall: 13 3/8 × 15/16 in. (34 × 2.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of George Murphy, Class of 1941
39.70.7893
Geography
Place Made: Sisimiut, Greenland, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Snow and Ice
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by George Frost Murphy, Jr. (1918-2001, Class of 1941) on the McMillan Expedition, 1938-39; given to present collection, 1939.
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