Human Head

Provenance

Private collection, Paris, France

Published

Art of the Arctic: Reflections of the Unseen (Ivories), Ellis, London, Black Dog Publishing, 2015, pg. 24, pl. 8

Related Examples

Princeton University Art Museum, Cat. No. (1997-131) – See: Fitzhugh, William, Hollowell, Julie, Crowell, Aron. Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. New Haven: Princeton Art Museum, 2009, pg. 237, fig. 12, for a Punuk or Thule head with a similar shaft identified as the head of a mechanical doll

Wardwell, Allen. Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait. New York: Hudson Hills, 1986, pgs. 45 and 47, figs. 21 and 25

The De Menil Collection, Houston, TX, Cat. No. 265 - See: La Rime et la Raison. Ministere de la Culture, Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux: Paris, 1984, pgs. 214 and 351, cat. no. 265