Walrus tusk

DateCirca 1905-1906

Mediumwalrus ivory

Dimensions2 7/8 × 30 in. (7.3 × 76.2 cm)

Donor credit lineKendall Whaling Museum Collection Transfer

Object number2001.100.2271

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionLarge and uncommonly thick, tip pierced and root end cut in the traditional manner of Native Alaskan hunters/traders. Collected by Frank C. Churchill at Nome, Alaska, in 1905 [sic] during his period as "a special agent... sent to Alaska to investigate the schools and the reindeer service in 1906 [sic]." (D.J. Ray, Eskimos of the Bering Strait, 1975, pg. 207).ProvenanceCollected by Frank C. Churchill, Nome Alaska, 1905; Dartmouth College Museum, Hanover, N.H., 1946; Montshire Museum of Science, Hanover, N.H., and Norwich, Vt., circa 1985; Gift of the Montshire Museum, 1999.

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