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Delicately carved marine mammal ivory gut scraper with fine line incision | Donald Ellis Gallery

Gut Scraper

Okvik (Substyle A)
Bering Sea, Alaska

200 BCE - 100 CE

marine mammal ivory

width: 4 ⅛"

Inventory # E4120-88

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PROVENANCE

J. Gordon Douglas III, New York, NY
Morris Pinto, New York, NY
Michael Ward Inc., New York, NY
Bill and Carol Wolf, Hawthorne, NJ

EXHIBITED

Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK, July - September, 1986; Lowie Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, CA, October 1986 - January, 1987; Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI, January - March, 1987; American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, October 1987 - January, 1988

PUBLISHED

Allen Wardwell, Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, Hudson Hills Press: New York, 1986, pg. 50, pl. 32
Donald Ellis Gallery, Art of the Arctic: Reflections of the Unseen (Ivories), London: Black Dog Publishing, 2015, pg. 63, pl. 51

RELATED EXAMPLES

Allen Wardwell, Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986, pg. 50, pl. 33

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, cat. no. 1998-484 – See: Fitzhugh et al., Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait, Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, Yale University Press, 2009, pg. 131, pl. 10

University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, cat. no. I-1932-9543 – See: Allen Wardwell, Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986, pg. 51, pl. 34

Collection of Hans-Georg Bandi– See: Hans-Georg Bandi, Die Kunst der Eskimos auf der St.-Lorenz-Insel in Alaska, Bern: Stuttgart Hallwag Verlag, 1977, pgs. 30-31