Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected in 1892 by members of the Peary Relief Expedition, led by Arctic explorer Angelo Heilprin (1853-1907) and sponsored by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; lent to MAI by the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1929.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Kalaallit [Greenland]
- Expedition
- Peary Relief Expedition (1892)
- Expedition leader
- Angelo Heilprin, Non-Indian, 1853-1907
- Lender
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University)
- Object Name
- Cooking pot
- Media/Materials
- Steatite/soapstone
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Food Gathering and Preparation
