‡Two Inuit scrimshaw charms

‡Two Inuit scrimshaw charms

Alaska

walrus ivory, the larger with three attachment holes and decorated a figure in a kayak, a fish, a seal, a goose and a whale tail, the back with two kayaks, 17.7cm long, the other with umiaks with sails, whales and a figure dragging a seal, the back with figures in an umiak and a seal, 15.1cm long. (2)

Provenance

Woolley and Wallis, Tribal Art, 20th Sept 2016, lot 73.

Oliver Hoare, London.