Human Figure
Western Alaska
1200 – 1700 CE
marine mammal ivory, iron pyrite inlay
height: 3"
Inventory # E4120-67
Sold
Provenance
Paul Steinhacker, New York, NY
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Geneva, Switzerland
Christie’s, New York, October 20, 1994, lot 19
Bill and Carol Wolf, Hawthorne, NJ
Exhibited
Princeton University Art Museum, “Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait,” Oct 3, 2009 - Jan 10, 2010
Published
Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait, Fitzhugh et al., Princeton University Art Museum, Yale University Press, 2009, pg. 113, fig. 1, and pg. 306, cat. 132
Related Examples
Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts Norwich, cat. no. UEA 591 See: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and Sainsbury, Robert J., Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection: Exhibition for the opening of the Centre, April 1978, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 1978, p. 181, pl. 295.
Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec, cat. no. IX-F-7169 – See: Morrison, David A., The Diamond Jenness Collections from Bering Strait. Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1991, pg. 169, pl. 43d.