Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 20 Feb 2024

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λAn Inuit arrow straightener

£8,000 - £12,000 £27,720

λAn Inuit arrow straightener
Arctic
walrus ivory and baleen, with an angled square aperture and a caribou head terminal with inset baleen eyes and horn stumps, with all-over incised decoration of caribou grazing, lying down and being hunted and recovered by figures, mostly side profiles and with one end profile, a pegged out skin and two birds on a carcase,
15cm long.

Provenance
Ernest Ohly, London.

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