{"id":11266,"date":"2014-09-01T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerieflak.com\/?p=11266"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:36:48","slug":"contrepoids-de-harpon-old-bering-sea-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galerieflak.com\/en\/contrepoids-de-harpon-old-bering-sea-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Harpoon Counterweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exceptional Winged Object &#8211; Harpoon Counterweight<br \/>\nOld Bering Sea II \/ III Culture<br \/>\nArchaic Eskimo<br \/>\nAlaska or Siberia<\/p>\n<p>Marine Ivory<br \/>\n300 &#8211; 500 A.D.<br \/>\nLength: 6 \u00bd in.<\/p>\n<p>Provenance<br \/>\nCollection Marie-Eliane d\u2019Udekem d\u2019Acoz, New York<br \/>\nChristie\u2019s Paris, 14 June 2011, lot 120<br \/>\nCollection Ron Nasser, New York<br \/>\nGalerie Flak, Paris<br \/>\nPrivate collection, Paris, acquired from the above in September 2014<\/p>\n<p>Publication &#038; Exhibition<br \/>\n\u00ab Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait \u00bb,<br \/>\ntraveling exhibition 1986-1988<br \/>\nThe Anchorage Museum of History and Art<br \/>\nThe Lowie Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley<br \/>\nThe Detroit Institute of Arts<br \/>\nThe American Museum of Natural History, New York<\/p>\n<p>Publication<br \/>\n<em>Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait<\/em>, Wardwell A., 1986, pl. 78.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exceptional Winged Object &#8211; Harpoon Counterweight Old Bering Sea II \/ III Culture Archaic Eskimo Alaska or Siberia Marine Ivory 300 &#8211; 500 A.D. 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Provenance Collection Marie-Eliane d\u2019Udekem d\u2019Acoz, New York Christie\u2019s Paris, 14 June 2011, lot 120 Collection Ron Nasser, New York Galerie Flak, Paris Private collection, Paris, acquired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,403,23],"tags":[116,909,546,1613,585,1594,110,1593,113,801,977,511,1556,1592,1719,1722,170,115,1718,1720,1721,474],"class_list":["post-11266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amerique-du-nord","category-eskimo-archaique","category-new-acquisitions","tag-alaska","tag-america-alaska","tag-amerique-du-nord","tag-art-damerique-du-nord","tag-art-tribal","tag-contrepoids-de-harpon","tag-eskimo","tag-harpoon-counterweight","tag-inuit","tag-native-american","tag-native-american-art","tag-north-america","tag-north-american-art","tag-obsi","tag-obsii","tag-obsiii","tag-okvik","tag-old-bering-sea","tag-old-bering-sea-i","tag-old-bering-sea-ii","tag-old-bering-sea-iii","tag-tribal-art"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harpoon Counterweight - Galerie Flak<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.galerieflak.com\/en\/contrepoids-de-harpon-old-bering-sea-iii\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harpoon Counterweight - Galerie Flak\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An exceptional Winged Object &#8211; Harpoon Counterweight Old Bering Sea II \/ III Culture Archaic Eskimo Alaska or Siberia Marine Ivory 300 &#8211; 500 A.D. 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