Tribal Art & Antiquities - 22nd September 2020
Lot 80
An Inuit child's parka Alaska seal gut
Estimate £3,000 - £4,000 | Hammer £4000
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Description
An Inuit child's parka
Alaska
seal gut, sealskin, seal? fur and red and natural fibre, the back with a small tuft of hair, the left arm with red inventory number 80.0.24, 19th century,
51cm high, 67cm wide.
Provenance
Collected at Gambell Village, St Lawrence Island.
The Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, inventory number 80.0.24.
Cowan's Auction Inc., Cincinnati, American Indian and Western Art, March 31, 2007, lot 42.
A private collection, Canada.
cf. William Fitzhugh and Aron Cowell. Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1998, p.221.