Live Auction 7982Important Native North American Art
Lot 24

AN OKVIK ESKIMO WALRUS IVORY HEAD

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AN OKVIK ESKIMO WALRUS IVORY HEAD
ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND, CIRCA 200 B.C.-100 A.D.

Of elongated oval shape, open upturned mouth, long thin nose, deeply inset eyes, domed brow, vertical, horizontal and angular incisions on face, dark brown color, 13in. (7½cm.) high

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This head, as well as the preceeding one, have both been broken away from full figures. See Wardwell (1986, p. 47, no. 25) for a somewhat similar example in the Pellizzi Collection.