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Harpoon blade case
Old Bering Sea II
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
100 – 300 CE
marine mammal ivory
height: 5"
Inventory # E4120-78
Sold
Provenance
Collected at the old village site at Gambell, AK, ca. 1993
Bill and Carol Wolf, NJ
Exhibited
“Gifts from the Ancestors,” Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; October 3, 2009 – January 10, 2010
Published
Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Art Museum, 2009; pg. 80, fig. 6; pg. 302, cat. no. 67
Related Examples
Leskov, A.M. and Muller-Beck, H. Arktische Waljager vor 3000 Jahren: Unbekannte Sibirische Kunst. Munich: v. Hase & Koehler Verlag, 1993, pgs. 146 & 147, pl. 225; pg. 162, pl. 297 (upper left); pg. 199, pl. 362