Material: Ivory Oval head with long nose and small mouth; slot at top of head; body is flat with long longitudinal slit; decorated with slanted parallel lines and dashed lines. Culture: Okvik
Material: Ivory Oval head with long nose and small mouth; slot at top of head; body is flat with long longitudinal slit; decorated with slanted parallel lines and dashed lines. Culture: Okvik
Title from image caption Carved human figure with cask on shoulder stands on head of traditional totem pole figure, which appears to be buried Caption of image reads, Alaska version of the "white man's burden" Photographer's number 151
Carving of a man standing with his arms extended out at his sides, palms down, wearing mittens, a hooded parka, and boots. Made from old whale bone, the carving is a medium brown color and still has a lot of beach sand left in the pores of the...
Material: Ivory Human head, 6cm in size with broad cheeks, carved nose and mouth, drilled holes for eyes, incised lines between eyebrows and for eyebrows, and drilled holes for nostrils. Object is broken off at neck, the ivory fractured on back of...
Material: Ivory Realistic human head, overly oblong and slightly pointed at top. The face is fully carved including eyes, nose, mouth, small ears on sides, and tattoo lines on forehead, cheeks and chin. Object is broken at neck. Drilled hole at...
Material: Ivory Egg shaped; long nose, thin; eyebrows indicated by hachure marks; chin well executed in form of protuberance; radiating lines on back of head; dark brown, grey. Culture: Okvik
Material: Ivory Represents Eskimo wearing armor made of walrus hide such as was used when fighting with bows and arrows, or lances; base square for insert into board; possibly recent; orange yellow. Culture: Punuk
Material: Ivory Ivory head. Large round hole through neck into head; face shows many tattoo marks; eye slits deep, narrow; nose unformed, nostrils indicated by shallow drill holes; slit for mouth rather deep; face part dark brown, top of head...
Material: Ivory Face carved at upper side; eyes, nose, mouth indicated; right cheek has round hole; 3 straight tattoo lines indicated each side of face below eyes, running down cheek; 2 horizontal tattoo marks upper head with half moon shaped...