#74 • Walrus Ivory & Scrimshaw Dog Sled Team Diorama - Mary L. Seppilu

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

High bid $450.00

Status: Sold

Category: Dioramas

A detailed walrus tusk scrimshaw carving depicting a traditional Alaska Native dog sled team in motion, featuring a fur-clad musher and seven fossilized ivory dogs harnessed with sinew cordage. The musher and dogs are mounted upon a whale epiphyseal disc. Signed on the top by Iñupiaq artist Mary L. Seppilu of Savoonga, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Measures approximately 8.5" x 6.5" x 3.25" tall.