An Eskimo Walrus Ivory Human Figure, Old Bering Sea I/Okvik, ca. 200 B.C.-100 A.D.

finely carved with a tapering section pierced at the base, surmounted by a classic stylized head, with pointed chin, high cheek bones, deeply inset eyes beneath arching brows, and a small drilled hole on the forehead centering four radiant lines.

Jeffrey R. Myers, New York
Acquired from the above, 1990s

New York, Dealers Ancient Art, Prehistoric Eskimo Art Ivories, text by Allen Wardwell, 1992, no. 5, illus.