Whale handle
Punuk
Bering Sea, Alaska
500 – 1200 AD
marine mammal ivory
height: 7 ¾"
Inventory # E4120-50
Sold
acquired by the Diker Collection, now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Provenance
The Carpenter-De Menil Collection, New York, NY
Paul Steinhacker, New York, NY
Sotheby’s, New York, May 21, 1996, lot 220
Bill and Carol Wolf, NJ
Exhibited
“Gifts from the Ancestors,” Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; October 3, 2009–January 10, 2010
Published
World of Tribal Arts Magazine, Winter 1997, "Arctic Abstractions" Steinhacker, pg. 91 fig.13
Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait
Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum, 2009, pg. 210, fig. 5, and pg. 309, cat. no. 171
Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Art Museum, 2009; pg. 210, fig. 5; pg. 309, cat. no. 171
Related Examples
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, cat. no. 1997-207 – See: Fitzhugh, et al., Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait, Princeton University Art Museum, Yale University Press, 2009, pg. 210, pl. 4.
University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, cat. no. 64-21-922 – See: Wardwell, Allen. Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986, pg. 102, pl. 126.
Newark Museum, Newark,(on loan in 1977, current status unknown) – See: Lipton, Barbara. Survival: Life and Art of the Alaskan Eskimo. Newark: Newark Museum, 1977, pg. 60, no, 48.
Wardwell, Allen. Prehistoric Eskimo Ivories. Dalton: Studley Press, 1992, pl. 29