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Whale Tail Comb
Thule
Western Alaska
Western Alaska
1200 – 1700 CE
marine mammal ivory
height: 2 ⅞"
Inventory # E4120-57
Sold
Provenance
Reportedly excavated at Shishmaref, AK
Peggy Au Schatz, Detroit, MI
Christie’s, New York, November 25, 1995, lot 184
Bill and Carol Wolf, NJ
Exhibited
On long-term loan to the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI, 1984–1995
Related Examples
Fitzhugh, William, Hollowell, Julie, Crowell, Aron. Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. New Haven: Princeton Art Museum, 2009, pg. 210, pl. 6a-b
Wardwell, Allen. Prehistoric Eskimo Ivories. Dalton: Studley Press, 1992, no. 36