- The Artifact Collection Gallery Catalog
- >
- Northwest Coast
- >
- Eskimo - Inuit Ivory and Bone Carvings
- >
- 200702-01 Very Fine Walrus Ivory Eagle by Noted Native Eskimo Carver Sam Dimmick of Nome, Alaska.
200702-01 Very Fine Walrus Ivory Eagle by Noted Native Eskimo Carver Sam Dimmick of Nome, Alaska.
SKU:
200702-01
$1,450.00
$1,450.00
Unavailable
per item
Overall height 8"; 6" Eagle + 2" at base; Finest quality Walrus Ivory.
Sam is a noted artist from Nome, Alaska who is well known throughout the Native Art world. His work is shown throughout North America at Major museum shows. The ivory used for this carving it from the uppermost part of the solid walrus tusk, still inside the skull. It yields the cleanest color of the tusk and only one figure like this can be made out of a tusk.
1 available