human torso
Okvik
Bering Sea, Alaska
200 BC – 100 AD
marine mammal ivory
height: 6 ⅝"
Inventory # E4120-28
Sold
Provenance
Francesco Pellizzi, New York, NY
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, ON
Bill and Carol Wolf, Hawthorne, NJ
Exhibited
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK, “Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait” July - September 1986
Lowie Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, CA, “Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait”, October 1986 - January 1987
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI, “Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait”, January - March 1987
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, “Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, October 1987 - January 1988
Published
Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, Wardwell, New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1986, pg. 38, pl. 4
Art of the Arctic: Reflections of the Unseen (Ivories) Ellis, London, Black Dog Publishing, 2015, pgs. 10 and 11, pl. 2
Related Examples
For a full figure with a stylistically related torso: Alaska State Museum, Juneau, cat. no. II-A-5105 – See: Wardwell, Allen. Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986, pg. 53, pl. 38.
For other related torsos, see: Ibid, pg. 37, pl. 1. pg. 38, pl. 5, and pg. 39, pl. 7
University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, – See: Ray, Dorothy Jean. Artists of the Tundra and the Sea. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1961, fig. 11 (far right)