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
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
Protection effigy
Point Hope, Alaska
Inupiaq culture – Archaic Eskimo
19th century
Carved wood
Height: 30 cm – 11 ¾ in.
Provenance
Ex collection Christopher Selser, Santa Fe
Ex private collection, Denver
Ex collection Galerie Flak, Paris, 2008
Ex collection Nathalie Chaboche & Guy Porré, France
Exhibited & published
“Alaska, passé/présent”, Boulogne-sur-Mer Museum, June-December 2016
“Alaska, passé/présent”, Musée de Boulogne sur Mer, June-December 2016
Gulf of Alaska
Inuit necklace and earrings
Glass beads, shells, hide
19th century
Height of the necklace : 9 in. (23 cm)
Height of the earrings: 5 ½ in. (14 cm)
Ex collection George Terasaki, New York (1931-2010)
Alaska
Yup’ik shaman mask
Lower Yukon
Carved wood with natural pigments
Late 19th – early 20th century
Height: 15 ¾ in. (40 cm)
Collected by Rita Mae Daniels in the 1920s
Ex collection Donald Ellis, 2001
Ex private collection
Exhibited and published:
Les Diables et les Dieux
Centre d’art de l’Yonne
Tanlay Castle
(June 2015 – Sept. 2015)
Alaska
Pacific Gulf
Bighorn sheep horn
Late 19th century
Height : 21 in. (53.5 cm)
Alaska
Point Hope
Carved wood
19th century
Height : 12 ¼ in. (31 cm)
Exhibited:
Crossing Mirrors, Rosenblum Collection,
Paris, October 2012- June 2013
Exhibited and published:
Château de Tanlay, Les Diables et les Dieux
(June 2015 – September 2015)
Exhibited and published:
A la découverte de la Culture Inuit, Cannes, Centre d’Art de la Malmaison, 2017, p. 25
Alaska
Thule culture (Ancient Eskimo)
Prior to the 19th century
Carved walrus tooth
Height: 3 ¼ in. (8.3 cm) in.
Alaska
Walrus Inua (spirit) mask
Yup’ik (Eskimo)
Nunivak Island
Carved wood, feathers, pigments
Early 20th century
Height: 19 ¾ in.
Alaska
Carved container with human figures
Carved bone, wood
Early 20th century
Height: 2 ½ in. (6.5 cm)
Ex Bonhams London, “Tribal Art” 14 December 2005 lot 39
