#33 • Yup'ik Story Doll Drummer & Dancer Diorama - Beulah Oittillian

Part of Collection of Arthur Gross Day 2 (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $1,700.00

Status: Sold

Category: Dolls

A Yup'ik story doll diorama depicting a pair of drummers and a pair of dancers. Each doll is attired in a seal gut parka trimmed with polar bear and seal furs, with hide mukluks and walrus tusk faces. The dancers are posed with arms raised, each hand holding beaded polar bear fur trimmed dance fan, the woman having log caribou fur braids adorned with red white and blue beads. The pair of musicians each sit behind the dancers, seal gut drums and baleen drumsticks in use. The quartet all are affixed to a large fossilized whale bone slice, signed on the edge by Beulah Oittillian of Gambell, Alaska. Measures approximately 14" x 12" x 11.5" tall.