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Female Figure
Okvik
Bering Sea, Alaska
Bering Sea, Alaska
200 BC – 100 AD
marine mammal ivory
height: 5 ⅝"
Inventory # E3897
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Provenance
This figure was excavated between Savoonga and Gambell on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, in the summer of 2011
PUBLISHED
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2012, pl. 17
Related Examples
Detroit Institute of Arts, Cat. No. 81.713 - See: Wardwell, Allen. Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait. New York: Hudson Hills, 1986, pg. 41, fig. 12
Ibid, pg. 52, fig. 37 (private collection)
The de Menil Collection, Houston, TX Cat. No. 260 – See: La Rime et la Raison. Ministere de la Culture, Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux: Paris, 1984, pg. 212, cat. 260