Art of the Arctic: Reflections of the Unseen, Masks and Ivories from the Bering Sea
$65.00 USD
200 BCE – 100 CE
marine mammal ivory
height: 3 ⅞"
Inventory # E4120-79
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Jeffrey Myers, New York, NY
Bill and Carol Wolf, Hawthorne, NJ
Art of the Arctic: Reflections of the Unseen (Ivories) Ellis, London, Black Dog Publishing, 2015, pg. 13, pl. 3
University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, cat. no. 77-53-77 – See: Wardwell, Allen. Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986, pg. 39, pl. 8.
University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, cat. no. 1-1931-1970 – See: Ray, Dorothy Jean. Artists of the Tundra and the Sea. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1961, fig. 10.
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, no. 273, – See: La Rime et la Raison. Ministere de la Culture, Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux: Paris, 1984, pg. 352, for another example of a figure with carved out legs