About the Artwork
Figurine
between 1500 and 1800
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Native american
Eskimo
Walrus ivory
Overall: 1 1/8 × 3/8 × 1/4 inches (2.9 × 1 × 0.6 cm) Including base: 2 5/8 × 3/4 × 3/4 inches (6.7 × 1.9 × 1.9 cm)
Sculpture
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stroh and the Stroh Brewery Foundation Fund
82.34
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Blodgett Collection. (Marty Ellman, Montgomery, New York, USA)
1982-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Eskimo, Native American, Figurine, between 1500 and 1800, walrus ivory. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Stroh and the Stroh Brewery Foundation Fund, 82.34.
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