#30 • 11" Walrus Tusk Scrimshaw - Ed Morris Milligrock

Part of December 2024 Premier Auction (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $210.00

Status: Sold

Category: Ethnographic Objects

An almost foot long walrus tusk tip with scrimshaw of an Alaska landscape with a bald eagle in flight, the background a line of spruce trees at the base of an extensive mountain range. Tusk end is capped with a slice of polished black baleen, the back hosts a leveling peg, and the artwork is signed lower right by the late Iñupiat carver Ed Morris Milligrock (1950-2003) from Little Diomede, Alaska. Measures approximately 11" x 2" x 2.5" tall.