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Small head sculpture, ~ 200 - 800 AD, Alaska, Old Bering Sea Culture/Punuk, Size: H: 5 cm (H: 2.0 inch), ID: 3043074
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Lot 47
87th Tribal Art Auction

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

not available anymore
Provenance
Alaska on Madison, New York, USA
Size
H: 5 cm
H: 2.0 inch

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.

Comparing literature

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

Publications

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

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