#84 • 25" Carved Ivory Tusk - Lloyd Elasanga

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

High bid $1,200.00

Status: Sold

Category: Ethnographic Objects

A museum quality walrus tusk carved on the side to depict a crew of six whale hunters within their umiak, one poised in the bow with harpoon aloft as he spies his bowhead prey. Signed and dated circa February 1973 in Diomede by the late Iñupiaq carver Lloyd Elasanga (1936-1985), whose works are housed within the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Measures approximately 2" x 4" x 25" long.