Canada
Northwest Coast, British Columbia
Carved wood, pigments, abalone shell
Turn of the 20th century
Height: 4 ½ in. (11.5 cm)
Ex Charitable Trust collection, New York
Ex Sotheby’s New York, May 2014
Ex private collection, Paris
Canada
Model Totem Pole Kwakiutl
Northwest Coast
Carved by Charlie James Yakuglas (1867-1937)
Carved wood, pigments
Circa 1920s
Height: 14 ½ in. (37.5 cm)
Alaska
Shaman’s Amulet
Ipiutak Culture ou Thule
Archaic Eskimo
Marine Ivory
900 – 1500 A.D.
Height: 6 ¾ in. (17.5 cm)
Ex collection Joe Gerena, New York
Ex private collection, Paris
Alaska, USA
Shamanic Amulet / Wand
Old Bering Sea I (Archaic Eskimo)
200 B.C. – 100 A.D.
Carved walrus tooth, wood
Lenght: 6 ½ in. (16.5 cm)
Ex collection Jeffrey Myers, New York
Alaska
Thule culture (Ancient Eskimo)
Mainland Thule
Circa 1200-1600 A.D.
Carved walrus tooth
Height: 3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm)
Excavated near Brevik circa 2010
Ex collection George Shaw, Colorado, USA
Exhibition
“Les fils de Sanna – Inuit de l’Arctique”, Musée du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle, 2020
Alaska
Tunghak shaman mask
Carved wood and pigments
Early oath century
Height: 31 cm
Ex collection Paul Schaffer, San Francisco, acquired in 1984
Ex private collection, Seattle
Alaska
Lower Yukon
Carved wood and pigments
Late 19th or early 20th century
Height: 7 ¼ in. (18.5 cm)
Bought in Alaska in the 1930s
Ex collection Madeline Thomas Langworthy
(1893-1980), California
Alaska
Punuk culture (Archaic Eskimo)
5th-9th century
Carved walrus tooth
Height: 10 ¼ in. (26.2 cm)
Ex private collection, Geneva
Published: White Memory, 2016
Alaska
Ulu knife
Thule culture or earlier (Archaic Eskimo)
Prior to the 18th century
Carved walrus tooth and slate
Height: 2 ½ in. (6.5 cm)
Length: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
Ex private collection, Geneva
Exhibition
“Les fils de Sanna – Inuit de l’Arctique”, Musée du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle, 2020
Alaska
Zoomorphic Scraper / Spoon
Thule Culture (Ancient Eskimo)
12th – 17th century
Carved mammoth ivory
Height: 3 ½ in. (8.8 cm)
Length: 2 ¾ in. (6.9 cm)
Ex collection Emile Deletaille, Brussels
Published: White Memory
