#55 • Wooden Sled Runner w/ Scrimshaw Walrus Tusk Seal Hunter Images - Alvin Aningayou
Part of Collection of Arthur Gross Day 2 (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)
High bid $700.00
Status: Sold
Category: Scrimshaw
A section of antique sled runner accented with a two walrus tusk sections, each featuring highly intricate scrimshaw images of seal hunters with harpoons and spears in hand. Signed lower right on one tusk section by Yup'ik artist Alvin Aningayou (b.1969), of Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Measures approximately 16" x 3" x 2.5" tall.