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THBAncient Inupiat Fossilized Tusk Idol / Doll
Lot 54a
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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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Oct 3, 2019
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2019-10-03 10:00:00
2019-10-03 10:00:00
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Bidsquare : Exceptional Day 2: Pre-Columbian & Tribal Art
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Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional, museum-worthy examples of Pre-Columbian from the ancient Americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial and fossils. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional, museum-worthy examples of Pre-Columbian from the ancient Americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial and fossils. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Native American, Northwest Alaska, Brevig Mission, Inupiat culture, Thule Period, ca. 1200 to 1700 CE. An incredibly rare effigy idol of a petite size, hand-carved from the fossilized tusk of a walrus. The figure, which has been long preserved in the frozen earth of northern Alaska, has an elongated lower body and a miniscule spherical head with impressed eyes. a narrow nose, and a thin mouth. The wonderful state of preservation of this figure is accentuated by the smooth patina that has formed across the exterior. A fabulous example from the ancient Inupiat! Size: 0.625" W x 2.875" H (1.6 cm x 7.3 cm); 5.1" H (13 cm) on included custom stand.
The Inupiat people were the ancestors of modern Inuit whose advanced culture and technology made them a part of the global economy during what we in the West call the Medieval period. This figure was carved during a dynamic time in Inupiat history during the Thule period; recent research indicates that sometime after ca. 1200 CE, perhaps in a span of just a few years, the Inupiat and Thule peoples spread from their Bering Strait homelands all the way to Greenland, likely driven by the search for iron, both from meteoric deposits they may have heard about from the Dorset people to their east and from trade. They traded with the Chinese to their west - metal beads and a belt buckle of Chinese manufacture and dating to 1100 to 1300 CE have been found in in the Seward Peninsula - and interacted with the Vikings to their east, who describe them in the Vinland Saga as the Skraelings.
Provenance: private Newport Beach, California, USA collection, found in village of Brevig Mission, Alaska
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#148577Minor nicks and abrasions to body and head, with light softening to some finer details, otherwise intact and very good. Light earthen deposits and fine patina throughout.Condition
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