#18 • Yup'ik Story Doll - Beulah Oittillian

Part of Collection of Arthur Gross Day 1 (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $160.00

Status: Sold

Category: Dolls

A lovely Yup'ik story doll with walrus tusk face and hands, accented with baleen eyes and wearing a seal gut parka; her braided hair and parka ruff are from polar bear fur. The young female figure prepares food from two lidded food containers, both filled to the brim with seafood and fish, and all made from walrus tusk. She kneels upon a fossilized slice of whale bone, signed on the edge by Beulah Oittillian of Gambell, Alaska. A drilled hole within her fisted right hand likely held a cooking tool that is no longer present. Measures approximately 7.5" x 7" x 6.25" tall.