Growing Recognition of Art from the Arctic
Hrag Vartanian of Hyperallergic commends Donald Ellis Gallery for contributing to the growing recognition of art from the North American Arctic
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Bering Sea
Alaska
Alaska
ca. 1860-80
wood, marine mammal ivory, paint, sinew
height: 33"
Inventory # E4242
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Burch, Ernest S. Jr. The Eskimos. Norman: pg. 5, University of Ok Press, 1988, pg. 55
Donald Ellis Gallery, 2012, pg. 71, pl. 25
Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, (The Alaska Commercial Company Collection) Nos. 362 2-5828, 363 2-4509 and 354 2-4517 - See: Graburn, Nelson H. Lee, Molly, Rousselot, Jean-Loup. Catalogue Raissonne of the Alaska Commercial Company Collection, Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, pg. 143, pls. 348 and 349
Fitzhugh, William. The Eskimo About the Bering Strait (Reprinted from the Eighteen Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1896-97, pl. LIV), Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983, pgs. 136-137
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