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HUMAN HEAD
Okvik,
Bering Sea, Alaska
200 BC - 100 AD
marine mammal ivory
height: 2 ½"
Inventory # CE4278
Please contact the gallery for more information.
PROVENANCE:
The George Terasaki Collection, New York, NY, excavated 2008
Donald Ellis Gallery, New York, NY
Private collection, Toronto, ON
Published
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, Toronto, 2012, plate 15
Related Examples
Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, Wardwell, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1986, pg. 46, pls. 22 and 24, pg. 47, pl. 25 and pg. 51, pl. 35 (heads) and for a group of full figures pg. 37, pl. 2, pg. 38, pl. 3, pg. 40, pl. 9, pg. 41, pls. 12 and 13, pg. 42, pl. 15 and pg. 52, pl. 37
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas – See: La Rime et La Raison, Ministere de la Culture (France), Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, 1984, pg. 214, Cat. No. 265
Sotheby’s, NY, May 17, 2007, lot 73
