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seal effigy
Old Bering Sea II
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
100 – 300 AD
marine mammal ivory
length: 3 9/16˝
Inventory # E4120-56
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Provenance
Reportedly collected at Kialegak, St. Lawrence Island, AK
J. Gordon Douglas III, New York, NY
Sotheby’s, New York, NY; November 30, 1995, lot 238
Bill and Carol Wolf, NJ
Exhibited
“Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait,” Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK; July–September 1986
“Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait,” Lowie Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, CA; October 1986–January 1987
“Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait,” Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI; January–March 1987
“Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait,” American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY; October 1987–
January 1988
Published
Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, Wardwell, New York, NY, Hudson Hills Press, 1986; pg. 69 , pl. 68 & on cloth cover
Related Examples
Leskov, A.M. and Muller-Beck, H. Arktische Waljager vor 3000 Jahren: Unbekannte Sibirische Kunst. Munich: v. Hase & Koehler Verlag, 1993, pg. 176 & 177, pl. 330; pg. 193, pl. 350
