Small head sculpture, ~ 200 - 800 AD ·  Alaska, Old Bering Sea Culture/Punuk · ID: 3043074

Description

bone, beautifully modelled head with the characteristic prominent facial features, surface strongly marked by erosion, min. dam., base.
The Punuk Culture (600-1200 AD) is the name given to the whaling society along the old Bering Sea of Alaska.

The object Small head sculpture, ~ 200 - 800 AD with the object ID 3043074 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 47.

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Publications

Galerie Flak (ed.), Mémoire Blanche/White Memory, Paris, 2016, p. 8

Comparing literature

Wardwell, Allen, Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait, New York 1986, p. 99, ill. 120