Ladle
Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic
collected 1905
Mineralized ivory
Overall: 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)
Overall: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)
Overall: 4 3/4 × 3 7/8 in. (12 × 9.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9663
Geography
Place Made: Point Barrow, United States, North America
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Service
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Exhibition History
Peoples and Cultures of the Northwest Coast and Arctic Regions, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-October 14, 1990.
Peoples and Cultures of the Plains, Northwest Coast, and Arctic Region, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Native American Studies 21 / Anthropology 40, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 30-December 20, 1992.
Provenance
Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Point Barrow, Alaska, probably 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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