American Indian Art

American Indian Art

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Sculpture from the Collection of Amy and Elliot Lawrence

Bucket Handle, Punuk, circa 800 - 1400 AD

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January 18, 07:31 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Description

Sculpture from the Collection of Amy and Elliot Lawrence

Bucket Handle, Punuk, circa 800 - 1400 AD


Length: 14 in (35.6 cm)


Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) ivory

Excavated at Kululak, St Lawrence Island

Jeffrey R. Myers, New York

Amy and Elliot Lawrence, New York, acquired from the above

Allen Wardwell, Ancient Ivories of the Bering Strait, New York, 1986, p. 101, cat. no. 124

William W. Fitzhugh, Julie Hollowell, and Aron L. Crowell, eds, Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait, Princeton, 2009, p. 212, fig. 7, and p. 303, cat. no. 90

The Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, July 13 – September 7, 1986; additional venues: The Lowie Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, October 18, 1986 – January 9, 1987; The Detroit Institute of Arts, January 25 – March 22, 1987; The American Museum of Natural History, New York, October 9, 1987 – January 3, 1988

Princeton University Art Museum, Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait, October 3, 2009 – January 10, 2010