Ivory eye (ring) for sledge dog traces
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Ivory eye (ring) for sledge dog traces
Greenland transportation
ca. 1908?3 x 1 3/8 x 1/4 in. (8 x 3 x 1 cm)
Inuit (aka Eskimo, Inuk)
Object Type:
transportation
Creation Places:
North America, Greenland, Northwest Greenland
Medium and Support:
ivory
Credit Line:
Gift of Donald and Miriam MacMillan
Accession Number:
1967.94.a
Inughuit hunters hitch each dog to the sledge individually in a fan formation. Ivory trace buckles attached the sealskin lines, or traces, to the sledge. Donald MacMillan used these on the North Pole and Crocker Land expeditions.
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Gallery C 1967-1998 , 1/1/1967 - 7/1/1998
- This Extraordinary Paradise: Living in Northwest Greenland , 10/19/2005 - 10/14/2007
- Northward Over the Great Ice The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum , 4/17/2008 - 9/5/2010
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