#11 • Ivory Polar Bear & Seal Cribbage Board w/ Playing Pegs - Joe Kunnuk

Part of Athena Estate Auction Part 3 (timed auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $600.00

Status: Sold

Category: Ethnographic Objects

A figural walrus ivory cribbage board of polar bear design, the body of the board featuring fourteen inlaid baleen accents, with two individually carved walrus ivory seals acting as a base. Signed on the underside by the Iñupiaq carver, Joe Kunnuk (b.1940) of King Island, Alaska. Includes four cribbage playing pegs, two of contemporary ivory and two of fossilized ivory. Measures approximately 8.5" x 2.5" x 1.25 tall.