About the Artwork
Figure
ca. 300
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Native american
Okvik
Ivory
Overall: 2 7/8 × 3/4 × 9/16 inches (7.3 × 1.9 × 1.4 cm) Including base: 5 × 1 1/16 × 1 1/16 inches (12.7 × 2.7 × 2.7 cm)
Sculpture
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, Insurance Recovery Fund
81.713
Public Domain
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Provenance
(Marty Ellman, dealer, Montgomery, New York, USA)
1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Okvik, Native American, Figure, ca. 300, ivory. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Insurance Recovery Fund, 81.713.
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