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Human Figure
Thule
Western Alaska
Western Alaska
1200 – 1700 CE
marine mammal ivory
height: 4 ⅝"
Inventory # E4034
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Provenance
Emile Deletaille, Brussels, Belgium
Private collection, Paris, France
Published
Art of the Arctic: Reflections of the Unseen (Ivories), Ellis, London, Black Dog Publishing, 2015, pg. 33, pl. 21
Related Examples
Princeton University Art Museum, Cat. No. 1997-126 – See: Fitzhugh, William, Hollowell, Julie, Crowell, Aron. Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. New Haven: Princeton Art Museum, 2009, pg. 193, fig. 8
Wardwell, Allen. Prehistoric Eskimo Ivories. Dalton: Studley Press, 1992, pls. 25 and 26
The Menil Collection, New York (published digitally) Envie d’Ailleurs Magazine, December, 2013