Donald Ellis Gallery Impresses with an Alaskan Atlatl
Scott Reyburn of the New York Times reports that while softer, TEFAF Maastricht still impresses with pieces like an 18th-century Alaskan wood throwing board
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Pail Handle
Old Bering Sea III
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
300 – 500 CE
marine mammal ivory
width: 8"
Inventory # E4120-82
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Excavated by Oosevaseuk at the old village site, Gambell, AK, ca. 1992
Bill and Carol Wolf, NJ
Published
Art of the Arctic: Reflections of the Unseen (Ivories), Ellis, London, Black Dog Publishing, 2015, pg. 65, pl. 52
Related Examples
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution – See: Collins, Henry B. Prehistoric art of the Alaskan Eskimo (with 24 plates). Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1929, pl. 3, fig. b.
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg – See: Aruti︠u︡nov, Sergei and Aleksandrovich, Sergeev, D. A. Problems of Ethnic History in the Bering Sea: The Ekven Cemetery. Anchorage: Shared Beringian Heritage Program, Anchorage, 2006, pg. 126, fig. 52, no. 4.
The State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow, cat. no. 100Dp-IV – See: Leskov, A.M. and Muller-Beck, H. Arktische Waljager vor 3000 Jahren: Unbekannte Sibirische Kunst. Munich: v. Hase & Koehler Verlag, 1993, pg. 159, pl. 281.
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