1998
Out of print
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Zoomorphic Figure
Okvik
Bering Sea, Alaska
Bering Sea, Alaska
ca. 100-200 AD
marine mammal ivory
width: 6 ¼"
length: 2 ½"
Inventory # E1741
Sold
acquired by the Diker Collection, now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
PROVENANCE
Sotheby's, New York, May 24, 1994, lot 239
Jack Bryant, New York, NY
PUBLISHED
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 1998, pg. 8
Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection, David Penney et al., New York, NY, Skira Rizzoli, 2015, pg. 64
RELATED EXAMPLES
Denver Art Museum, No. 1949.859 - See: Ancient Ivories of the Bering Strait, Wardwell, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1986, pl. 76
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, No. 371978 - See: ibid, pl. 105
Arktische Waljager vor 3000 Jahren, Hase & Koehler, Munich, 1993, pls. 333, 334 and 335
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