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ALASKAN BASKETRY VICTORIAN OIL LAMP,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $1,840.00
tour-de-force coiled weaving replicating the lamp to a T. The wool embroidered flowers on the oil container simulate the painted flowers on a glass container, height 13.25". The wick control and clips for the lamp are present; one could almost light the lamp.
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ESKIMO BASKET,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $0.00
bundle coiled of grasses with simple blocks of color creating a zigzag round body, height 4" x diameter 9".
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ALASKAN BASKET,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $120.00
soft, open-twined bag with red and gray-green wool yarn elements decorating body, height 5.5" x diameter approximately 8.5". Basket retains original label.
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ESKIMO LIDDED BASKET,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $0.00
coiled of grasses embellished with square decorations of red-dyed grass and gray yarn, height 3.5" x diameter 4.5".
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ESKIMO LIDDED BASKET AND SEAL GUT POUCH,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $0.00
lot of 2. Includes a basket accented with gut, cobalt beads, walrus ivory disc, and a clear oval bead, height 6.5" x diameter 7"; AND a delicately embroidered cotton-lined pouch with pale celery-colored leaves and with cut worked holes near scalloped border, length 4.8".
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ESKIMO CARVED WALRUS IVORY & BACULUM CLUB,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $510.00
walrus baculum with ivory ends carved into a bear and walrus head, length 21.75"
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IVORY POLAR BEAR AND CARIBOU CARVINGS,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $373.75
lot of 2, both of walrus ivory. Includes an adorable carving of a caribou cow with two calves, on tiered rock outcrop, mothers antlers are removable, with black painted highlights, 4,4" high, AND figure of a polar standing on hind legs, 3.25" high.
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ESKIMO SCRIMSHAWED IVORY BRACELET,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $180.00
strung on elastic and fashioned with six walrus ivory panels depicting charming scenes of Eskimo children fishing, holding a dog, putting on boots, and visiting with a seal. Fossilized ivory separates panels, length 4".
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ESKIMO SOAPSTONE CARVING OF A HUNTER,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $241.50
depicting a man dressed in parka and boots reeling in a strong seal, height 13.5" x width 4.5".
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TWO TUPILAK FIGURES,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $420.00
simply carved walrus ivory, one depicting a man with large head, black, inset eyes, and elongated, flipper hands, tag with "Thervald Mikaelsen," length 6.25"; AND another of a bear with his tongue stuck out, flippers as paws, tag "Hosias Tukula," length 4".
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TUPILAK TRANSFORMATION FIGURES,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $450.00
lot of 2, ca 20th century, carved of walrus ivory. Includes a pregnant figure with short flipper arms and a large bulbous head with amphibious facial features. A seal emerges from forehead, black metal eyes on tupilak and seal, length 4.5"; AND a figure with a traditional Greenland topknot giving birth to a seal, deep inset metallic eyes, length 4.25".
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ESKIMO CARVINGS,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $720.00
lot of 49. Includes a group of twenty-two bone pieces, probably game markers, average length 2; PLUS a group of five fishing weights carved to resemble whales, longest length 5"; PLUS ten teeth from various animals, longest length 3"; AND twelve assorted beads, length 1".
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GROUP OF IVORY CARVINGS,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $660.00
lot of 4, including an Eskimo kayak equipped with a seated man, oars, and sealskin bag, twine wrapping tail and ends of rope, with a metal-tipped harpoon point and fishing weight, two holes on kayak for more accoutrements, length 8"; PLUS an Eskimo carved fish attached by braided sinew to pole, length 4.25"; PLUS a letter opener with insect carved in relief on handle and lightly incised bird on verso, length 7.5"; PLUS a double-headed Billiken letter opener, length 6.25"; AND a non-Eskimo knife handle depicting a polar bear chasing a seal into the water, signed "Nuguruk" (Ray 1996: 152), length 4".
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LARGE WALRUS TUSK CRIBBAGE BOARD,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $0.00
beautifully engraved with images of a stored umiak, igloo, and meat drying rack on top, resting walrus, seal, polar bear, whale, caribou, and foxes decorate side, and fishing implements such as a bow drill, knives, weights, harpoon points, sealskin bag, and a boat on opposite, with two playing pegs and two peg feet.
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FINE 1899 ALASKAN CRIBBAGE BOARD,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $460.00
made of walrus tusk and exquisitely incised with numerous hunting scenes - a man hunting bear and a lounging walrus surrounded by circles illustrated on top of board. Bottom depicts kayaks laden with sealskin bags and men throwing harpoons at walruses and seals, "Alaske 1899" written on side, wooden peg foot, length 19" x width (at widest) 2.25".
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WALRUS TUSK CRIBBAGE BOARD,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $0.00
ca early 20th century, front engraved with a seal, house and clothesline, opposite depicts an attenuated view of Nome, Alaska, "NOME" written in river, ivory peg foot, length 13" x width (at widest) 1.5".
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ESKIMO MODEL KAYAKS WITH HUNTERS,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $0.00
lot of 2. Both men have carved wooden faces and are fully equipped for the hunt with an assortment of ivory-tipped harpoons, lances, floats, and other tools. Each sits in a seal skin kayak and wears a cotton parka. One with an oar, length 21"; AND other man in white parka, length 22".
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ESKIMO MODEL KAYAK,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $180.00
sinew-sewn seal skin, stretched over wooden frame, with walrus ivory at both prows and ivory rigging, 23" long. Inked museum accession number 541.116.1 on underside.
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ESKIMO MALE DOLL WITH CARVED WOODEN FACE,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $0.00
and cloth body wears a skin parka with fur trim, wool leggings, and suede moccasins. Parka is hand-stitched, but pants are machine-stitched. Facial features appear to be applied with ink. Doll's undershirt made from an old sock, height 13.75".
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POLAR BEAR STUFFED TOY,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $0.00
hand-made of animal fur, probably polar bear, with hand-embroidered features, length 10" x height 6".
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ESKIMO DOLLS PLUS,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $488.75
lot of 4. Includes one with a hand-carved wooden face, skin parka and leggings, and hide mukluks, height 11.75"; PLUS another with hand-painted walrus ivory face and skin clothing with felt trim, height 8.75"; PLUS another with hand-embroidered hide face and leopard skin clothing with red felt trim, height 10"; AND a hide mask molded to resemble a human face and trimmed with strips of fur that are sinew-sewn to face, height 10". Tag with mask reads, "Mr. Mrs. Robert Panuak/ Anaktuuuk Pass/ Alaska."
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ESKIMO SLED RUNNERS AND IMPLEMENTS,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $115.00
lot of 11. Includes a wide variety of objects, all Eskimo worked from fossilized ivory or bone. These items demonstrate Eskimo ingenuity and their amazing ability to adapt to a hostile environment. Two portions of sled runners, length 10.5"; PLUS one with length 2.25"; PLUS a net sinker, length 6.25"; PLUS a larger net sinker, length 8.5"; PLUS a base for a fire starter, length 5"; PLUS a fire starter(?) with worked tip, length 4.5"; PLUS broken section of walrus tusk, length 3.75"; PLUS a celt or adze, length 5.6"; PLUS a worked walrus tusk tip, length 3.3"; PLUS another worked tip, length 5.25"; PLUS a third worked tip, length 2.5"; AND a fragment of a fossilized walrus tusk, length 2.25".
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GROUP OF ESKIMO UTILITARIAN ITEMS,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $402.50
lot of 5. Includes a whale baculum or penile bone used as a club for killing animals in the Northwest Coast and Arctic regions, length 18.9"; PLUS a wooden Eskimo breast yoke with hooks for draglines, length 35"; PLUS a pair of hide Eskimo sunglasses with decorative slits over center of nose and large slits for eyes, length 39.25"; PLUS a wooden trap with a hair spring for catching birds, puffins, and other fowl, width 6.25" x height 6.25"; AND a pair of carved antler handles joined by a heavy leather strap that passes through a drilled rectangular holes, length of handles 4.25” x width of joined handles 4.2".
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ESKIMO WALRUS BONE HANDLED KNIFE,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $632.50
with very heavy clipped end single edged steel 7.5" blade typical of those traded by the Hudson Bay Co. with stamped double cipher type mark on left face. Bone grip with incised circles in circles, with rich nut brown polished patina, total length 10.65.
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CALIFORNIA BASKET,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $115.00
may be bottom of burden basket, height 5.5" x diameter 7".
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NORTHERN CALIFORNIAN BASKETRY SUNHAT,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $0.00
twined and decorated with dark full-twist overlay bands, height 5" x diameter 14.5". This is a rare form probably made for a tourist.
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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOWL,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $240.00
with half-twist overlay design of stacked triangles wrapping around body, height 3.75" x diameter 5.5".
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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BASKETS,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $316.25
lot of 2. Includes a small bowl with delightful, fluted edge and full-twist overlay design of eight triangles, height 2.5" x diameter 7"; AND a bowl with full-twist overlay motif of stepped triangles spaced along a zigzag band, height 4.75" x diameter 8.75".
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NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA BASKET,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $240.00
twined with full twist-overlay motif of stepped triangles moving diagonally around the container, height 5.25" x diameter 8.25".
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HUPA STORAGE BASKET,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $575.00
twined with half-twist overlay. Basket embellished with three massive, complex motifs of triangles and stacked parallelograms, height 7.5" x diameter 9.5".
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