American Indian Art
American Indian Art
Sculpture from the Collection of Amy and Elliot Lawrence
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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