Box of Dried Reindeer Moss
Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic
collected 1905
Cladonia rangiferina (Reindeer moss or Reindeer lichen)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9789
Geography
Place Made: Wainwright Inlet, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Plant Remains
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Provenance
Clara G. and Frank C. Churchill, Lebanon,Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Wainwright Inlet, Alaska, probably 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946. New Hampshire, August 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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