Sea Mammal Dart (also called spear)
Iñupiaq or Yup'ik
Western Arctic
Arctic
19th century
Wood, bone, sinew, and leather
Overall: 53 11/16 × 1 5/16 in. (136.4 × 3.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Timothy Sample
54.71.13241
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Exhibition History
Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Juanuary 27-May 13,2007.
Publication History
Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 62, no. 10.
Provenance
Collected by Admiral George Dewey, USN (1837-1917) or collected by his nephew, Captain Theodore Dewey (1859-uknown); to his sister, Margaret Louis Dewey Howland (1875-1952); to her daughter, Sylvia Ann Howland Sample (1902-unkown); to her son, Timothy Sample, Norwich, Vermont; given to present collection, 1954.
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