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A GROUP OF THREE EARLY HISTORIC ESKIMO CARVINGS
An ivory pipe with a elongated thin pipe stem and a cylindrical bowl, decorated with engraved horizontal bands, yellow patina; two bone tubes with baleen strips lashed together, white patina; a chain, each section finely incised with a central nucleated circle with radiating lines and flanked by two square patterns with crosshatches, yellow patina
The first: 6in. (15.2cm.); the second: 5¼in. (13.3cm.); the third: 12½in. (31.7cm.) long (3)
An ivory pipe with a elongated thin pipe stem and a cylindrical bowl, decorated with engraved horizontal bands, yellow patina; two bone tubes with baleen strips lashed together, white patina; a chain, each section finely incised with a central nucleated circle with radiating lines and flanked by two square patterns with crosshatches, yellow patina
The first: 6in. (15.2cm.); the second: 5¼in. (13.3cm.); the third: 12½in. (31.7cm.) long (3)