Ivory Coast
Male Figure
Carved wood
Early 20th century
Height: 13 ½ in.
Ex Galerie Monbrison, 1980
Ex collection Javier Lentini
Ivory Coast
Cup-bearer female figure
Carved wood
Late 19th – early 20th century
Height: 16 in. (41 cm)
Ex collection Paolo Morigi, Lugano
Ex collection Bernard Dulon, Paris
Published in: Senoufo, une Culture, un Art, Eric Hertault, 2018
Arizona
Hopi
Lenang Katsina – Flute player
Carved wood (Cottonwood) and natural pigments
Circa 1890
Height: 9 ¾ in.
Alaska
Okvik Culture, Old Bering Sea I
Archaic Eskimo
Marine Ivory
200 B.C. – 100 A.D.
Height: 1 ½ in.
Ex collection Jeffrey Myers, New York
Published: Eskimo Archaïque, 2014
Alaska
Old Bering Sea II Culture
Archaic Eskimo
Carved bone
100 – 300 A.D.
Height: 3 ½ in.
Excavated in Gambell, St. Lawrence Island
Published: Archaic Eskimo, 2014
Alaska
Okvik Culture, Old Bering Sea I
Archaïc Eskimo
Marine Ivory
200 B.C. – 100 A.D.
Height: 3 ¼ in.
Ex collection Jeffrey Myers, New York
Published: Archaic Eskimo, 2014
Alaska
An exceptional Winged Object – Harpoon Counterweight
Old Bering Sea II / III Culture
Archaic Eskimo
Alaska or Siberia
Marine Ivory
300 – 500 A.D.
Length: 6 ½ in.
Provenance
Collection Marie-Eliane d’Udekem d’Acoz, New York
Christie’s Paris, 14 June 2011, lot 120
Collection Ron Nasser, New York
Galerie Flak, Paris
Private collection, Paris, acquired from the above in September 2014
Publication & Exhibition
« Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait »,
traveling exhibition 1986-1988
The Anchorage Museum of History and Art
The Lowie Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley
The Detroit Institute of Arts
The American Museum of Natural History, New York
Publication
Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, Wardwell A., 1986, pl. 78.
Alaska
Thule Culture
Ancient Eskimo
Marine ivory
1500 – 1800 A.D.
Height: 3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm)
Published in: Wardwell A., Prehistoric Eskimo Ivories, New York, 1992, n°26
Published: Archaic Eskimo, 2014
Alaska
Thule Culture
Archaic Eskimo
Marine Ivory
1200-1600 AD
Height: 4 ¼ in.
Excavated at Cape Rodney, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
Published: Archaic Eskimo, 2014
Alaska
Yupi’k
Complex mask
Yukon River Delta
Carved wood and feathers
19th century
Diameter : 15 ½ in.
Collected in 1898-99 by Joseph Chilberg
Published in : Steven C. Brown, Spirits of the Water: Native Art Collected on Expeditions to Alaska and British Columbia, 1774-1910
University of Washington Press, p.166
Published: Archaic Eskimo, 2014
