#32 • 17" Walrus Tusk Scrimshaw - Ed Morris Milligrock

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

High bid $450.00

Status: Sold

Category: Ethnographic Objects

An almost foot-and-a-half 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. Left and right of the vignette is a scrimshaw moose head and a Dall sheep with impressively curved horns. Tusk end is open, 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 17" x 3" x 3" tall.