#76 • Whalebone, Ivory & Baleen Drummer - Harry Ningealook

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

High bid $160.00

Status: Sold

Category: Figural Carvings

A figure carved from fossilized whalebone, depicting a drummer with a walrus ivory inlaid face framed by an incised parka hood. Eyes, labrets, and parka hem are enhanced with baleen dots, and the figure holds a fossilized bone drum and baleen drumstick. Mounted on a slice of fossilized whalebone and signed on the underside by Iñupiaq carver Harry Ningealook (b.1957) of Shishmaref, Alaska. Measures approximately 5.25" x 4" x 10.25" tall.