£325
African & Oceanic Art and Antiquities | 576
Auction: 15 October 2019 at 16:00 BST
carved soapstone and marine ivory, including: one sea otter with marine ivory fish in its mouth (signed in Inuktitut syllabics), three seals, one polar bear, one fish, one goose, one owl (signed "Kango" - possibly Salome Kango), one narwhal with inset tusk (with label reading "Terese Paolak 3/54"), one caribou with inset antlers and one hunting scene with a single figure, one seal and one walrus carved in marine ivory and mounted on soapstone (likely also Terese Paolak) (11)
Provenance:
Collected between mid 1960s - 1975 in Nunavit, Canada, by a community nurse serving the local communities