2005
Out of print
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Snow Goggles
Late Dorset/Early Thule
Central or Eastern Arctic
Central or Eastern Arctic
800 – 1200 CE
marine mammal ivory
length: 4 ½"
Inventory # E3213
Sold
acquired by the Diker Collection, now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
PROVENANCE
Reportedly collected by a Mounted Police officer on North Baffin Island between 1920 and 1940
Sotheby’s, New York, October 23, 1982, lot 234
Paul Steinhacker, New York, NY
George and Rosemary Lois collection, New York, NY
PUBLISHED
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2005, pg. 15
RELATED EXAMPLES
Prehistoric Eskimo Ivories, Wardwell, Daedalus Ancient Art, New York, 1992, pl. 23
Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, Wardwell, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1986, pl. 136
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