Leopard Seal Toggle

PROVENANCE

Private Collection, Paris, France

RELATED EXAMPLES

For a larger ornament possibly representing a polar bear see:
National Museum of Natural History, Cat. No. 371978 - See: Allen Wardwell, Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986, pg. 91, pl. 105

For another bear figure excavated at the Ekven site see:
State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow, Cat. No. 782 - See: William Fitzhugh, Julie Hollowell, Julie, Aron Crowell, Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. New Haven: Princeton Art Museum, 2009, pg. 215, fig. 12