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An Okvik Eskimo walrus ivory harpoon counterweight image 1
An Okvik Eskimo walrus ivory harpoon counterweight image 2
Eskimo/Northwest Coast
Property of Various Owners, Lots 122-132
Lot 127Y

An Okvik Eskimo walrus ivory harpoon counterweight

19 June 2017, 11:00 PDT
San Francisco

US$4,000 - US$6,000

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An Okvik Eskimo walrus ivory harpoon counterweight

200 BC - 100 AD, triangular wings on either side with an incised three-point design and concentric circle center, the central panel centering a similar design, flanked by a pair of two-pointed spurs, the undecorated back with a second set of wings on either side of a hook form.
length 3 5/8in

Footnotes

See Rainey, Froelich G., Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, V. XXXVII, Pt. IV Eskimo Prehistory the Okvik Site on the Punuk Islands, 1941, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, fig.26 3a, showing a sketch of near-identical example

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