#8 • Walrus Ivory & Baleen Airplane Runway Desk Display

Part of August 2024 Treasure Trove Auction (timed auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $200.00

Status: Sold

Category: Ethnographic & Tribal Art & Crafts

Remarkably inventive fixed wing single propeller desk display carved from walrus ivory, the rotating propeller from baleen, and the aircraft windows with applied abalone. The plane is held aloft by a baleen post and the runway crafted from baleen plate embedded with intermittent ivory runway markers. Sculpture is initialed F.J.A. by the Barrow, Alaska artist and dated 1994. Measures approximately 10.75" x 3.5" x 3" tall.