#82 • Yup'ik Walrus Tusk Spirit Mask - Byron Amos

Part of June 2023 Premier Auction (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $1,700.00

Status: Sold

Category: Ethnographic Objects

A carved walrus tusk spirit wheel with central figure of a fox-faced puffin clutching a fish, mounted to a bent baleen hoop sporting ten carved walrus tusk figural appendages and two feather. Signed and dated 2001 en verso for the Central Yup'ik artist, Byron Amos (b.1962), of Nunivak Island. Measures approximately 17" x 22" overall.