Skip to Content
plate-39-DE_73-72.jpg
Views
Angled view of carved ivory harpoon head decorated with linear design | Donald Ellis Gallery

Harpoon head

Old Bering Sea III
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

300 – 500 CE

marine mammal ivory, slate

height: 4 ¾"

Inventory # E4120-73

Sold


Provenance

Sotheby’s New York, NY, May 24, 1994, lot 242
Bill and Carol Wolf, NJ

RELATED EXAMPLES

Fitzhugh, William, Hollowell, Julie, Crowell, Aron. Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. New Haven: Princeton Art Museum, 2009, pg. 300, pls. 33 & 48