Splayed seal
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
100 – 300 AD
marine mammal ivory
height: 35 ½"
Inventory # E4120-56
Sold
acquired by the Diker Collection, now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Provenance
Reportedly collected at Kialegak, St. Lawrence Island, AK
J. Gordon Douglas III, New York, NY
Sotheby’s, New York, NY; November 30, 1995, lot 238
Bill and Carol Wolf, NJ
Exhibited
“Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait,” Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK; July–September 1986
"Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait,” Lowie Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, CA; October 1986–January 1987
“Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait,” Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI; January–March 1987
“Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait,” American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY; October 1987–January 1988
Published
Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, Wardwell, New York, NY, Hudson Hills Press, 1986; pg. 69 , pl. 68 & on cloth cover
Related Examples
Leskov, A.M. and Muller-Beck, H. Arktische Waljager vor 3000 Jahren: Unbekannte Sibirische Kunst. Munich: v. Hase & Koehler Verlag, 1993, pg. 176 & 177, pl. 330; pg. 193, pl. 350