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THB19th C. Inuit Wood / Hide Canoe + Hunter, ex-Museum
Lot 109
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Featuring Pre-Columbian, Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, historical examples from the Spanish, Mexican, and American frontiers, fossils, and more. All items offered for sale have been legally acquired, are legal to sell and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Native American, Native Alaskan, Inuit, ca. 19th century CE. An elegant model of a pine wood kayak, its surface covered with seal skin that is hand sewn together with the cockpit trimmed in a slender band of ivory with a miniature whale's tooth carved from whale bone. Sitting within is a miniature hunter carved from wood with separately carved arms attached via dowels so that they move freely. According to the John P. Richardson Museum catalogue entry, this figure once had a tag that read, "Given to me by E. Coatesworth, Boston. She said that it was made by Henry Beston while he spent the year at the Outermost House, Cape Cod. John P. Richardson." The figure's face and garments are carefully hand-painted in black, red, and white pigments. Size: 15.5" L x 2.625" H with figure (39.4 cm x 6.7 cm); when removed, figure is 2.375" H (6 cm)
Henry Beston, created the figure in the kayak, was an American author and naturalist who is best known for his book "The Outermost House" written in 1928. Note also that the kayak was the most prized possession of a northern hunter, used for transportation, seal hunting, and fishing.
See a similar example at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/319187
The ivory on this item pre-dates 1900 and was acquired long before the 1970 ban on ivory trade.
Please note that ivory from any species cannot be shipped to the US States of California, Hawai'i, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Washington State, and Illinois.
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-John P. Richardson Museum, Massachusetts, USA; ex-Henry Beston collection, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA - Beston was an American author and naturalist who is best known for his book "The Outermost House" written in 1928.
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#145393Seal skin covering shows expected age wear with some stains, abrasions, and a few minute losses. Minute crack to cockpit border. Wooden figure has darkened a bit with age, but is otherwise excellent.Condition
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