#48 • Whalebone, Walrus Ivory & Baleen Dancer - Edwin J. Weyionanna

Part of November 2025 Ethnographic Art Auction (timed auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $140.00

Status: Sold

Category: Figural Carvings

An expressive Alaska Native carving depicting a stylized human face emerging from a curved section of fossilized whalebone. The figure features finely drilled baleen inlays with a pair of walrus ivory labrets below the mouth. Signed on the underside by Iñupiaq artist Edwin J. Weyionanna (b.1965) of Shishmaref, Alaska. Measures approximately 4" x 1.75" x 11" tall.