Drill bow ·  Canada - Alaska - Greenland, Inuit · ID: 3035501

Description

walrus ivory, dark pigment, of a constant narrow, slightly curved form with raised middle ridge and pictographic engravings: featuring a hunter with three deers and four seals, accentuated by dark pigment, two drilled holes on one end, the other one missing, socle;
a drill bowl was part of an Eskimo carvers’s kit. It was used to work on ivory tusk, around 1850

The object Drill bow with the object ID 3035501 was part of the auction 74th tribal art auction on September 7, 2013. The object with the lot number 47 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,050 with an asking price of EUR 900.

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Comparing literature

Fitzhugh, William W., Gifts from the ancestors, London 2009, p. 255, ill. 3 D. J. Ray, Artists of the Tunda and the Sea, Seattle 1980