Drill bow · Canada - Alaska - Greenland, Inuit · ID: 3035501
sold
EUR 1,050
Size
L: 30 cm
B: 2,3 cm
L: 11.8 inch
B: 0.9 inch
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
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