Maskette
Bering Sea, Alaska
100 - 600 CE
marine mammal ivory
height: 2 ⅜"
Inventory # E4386
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PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Paris, France
RELATED EXAMPLES
Richard Margolis Collection, New York, NY
For a drawing of a similar ivory maskette collected at the Okvik Site, Punuk Islands see:
University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks - See: Rainey Froelich, Eskimo Prehistory: The Okvik Site on the Punuk Islands, Anthropological Papers of the Museum of Natural History, Volume XXXVIII, Part IV, New York: Museum of Natural History, 1941, pg. 526-527, fig. 29, no. 4
A. M. Leskov and Hansjürgen Müller-Beck, Arktische Waljäger vor 3000 Jahren, Munich: v.Hase & Koelhler Verlag, 1993, pg. 171, pl. 327
For an ivory head identified as Punuk see: Allen Wardwell, Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, New York: Hudson Hills, 1986, pg. 99, pl. 119