Small anthropomorphic head sculpture ·  Alaska, Inupiaq · ID: 3043069

Description

wood, brown patina, flat face with small eyes that are closely arranged to each other, high cheek bones, right eye and nostril as well as the chin provided with some sort of inlay, incised scarification mark on the left cheek, slightly dam., abrasion of paint, crack backside, base.
The Inupiaq are an Alaskan Native people, whose traditional territory spans Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the Canada-United States border.

The object Small anthropomorphic head sculpture with the object ID 3043069 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 54.

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