Figural Comb
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
100 – 500 AD
marine mammal ivory
height: 4"
Inventory # E4120-8
Sold
Provenance
Excavated at the Ivetok site on St. Lawrence Island, AK, in June 2004
Jason Noongwook, Savoonga, AK
Bill and Carol Wolf, Hawthorne, NJ
Published
Art of the Arctic: Reflections of the Unseen (Ivories), Ellis, London, Black Dog Publishing, 2015, pg.41, pl. 30
RELATED EXAMPLES
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg, – See: Aruti︠u︡nov, Sergei and Aleksandrovich, Sergeev. Problems of Ethnic History in the Bering Sea: The Ekven Cemetery. Anchorage: Shared Beringian Heritage Program, 2006, pg. 161, fig. 80, no. 7.
For a later example of a comb with a human head: Collection of Hans-Georg Bandi – See: Bandi, Hans-Georg. Die Kunst der Eskimos auf der St.-Lorenz-Insel in Alaska. Bern: Stuttgart Hallwag Verlag, 1977, pg. 44.
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg, – See: Aruti︠u︡nov, Sergei and Aleksandrovich, Sergeev. Problems of Ethnic History in the Bering Sea: The Ekven Cemetery. Anchorage: Shared Beringian Heritage Program, 2006, pg. 161, fig. 80, no. 7.