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Box handle carved with eight protruding seal heads and two sea otters | Donald Ellis Gallery

Box Handle

Inupiaq
Brevig Mission, Alaska

late 19th century

marine mammal ivory

width: 6.1"

Inventory # E4333

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RELATED EXAMPLE

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, Cat. No. 636999 - See: William Fitzhugh and Susan Kaplan, Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982, pg. 224, pl. 269, for a box handle featuring a series whale flukes