#42 • Group of Alaskan Masks - Anthony Pushruk & Others

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

High bid $300.00

Status: Sold

Category: Ethnographic Objects

A group of four masks, three of them carved from fossilized whalebone, one initialed "JSB" en verso for non-indigenous Alaskan artist Jim Bell (20th/21st Century). The fourth, an Iñupiat medicine man mask, is crafted from driftwood and signed en verso by King Islander artist Thomas Annorak Pushruk (1925-2010). Largest measures approximately 5" x 2.5" x 8.5" tall.