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A small marine mammal ivory gaming piece carved with anthropomorphic facial features | Donald Ellis Gallery

Gaming Piece

late Thule
Western Alaska

1200 - 1700 CE

Inventory # E4228-3

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PROVENANCE

Bella Hein, Paris, France
Giselle Weinberger, Paris, France 
Fraysse & Associes, Hotel Drouot - Collection Bella Hein, Paris, June 6, 2005, lot 64

EXHIBITED

Fondation Pierre Arnaud, Paris, France, Surrealisme et Arts Primitifs: Une Revelation du Regard, June 13 - October 5, 2014

PUBLISHED

Fondation Pierre Arnaud, Surrealisme et Arts Primitifs: Un Air de Famille Paris, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2014

RELATED EXAMPLE

Norman Hurst, Arctic Ivory: Two Thousand Years of Alaskan Eskimo Art and Artifacts, Cambridge: Hurst Gallery, 1998, pg. 28, nos. 56-68