#53 • Walrus Tusk & Whale Bone Seal Hunter Diorama - Robert Apatiki

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

High bid $350.00

Status: Sold

Category: Dioramas

A diorama of a carved whale bone seal hunter with a carved walrus tusk face and mukluks; hands from fossilized walrus tusk. The hunter stands upon a bone base, posed with a tusk-tipped harpoon in his right hand, dragging his baleen sled with captured seal lashed to the top with sinew. The bone base further sits upon a pair of fossilized slices. Signed on the underside by Siberian Yup'ik artist Robert Apatiki (b.1960); the artist's works are housed with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Measures approximately 6.5" x 2.25" x 7" tall.