Scraper

Reference : 123

Scraper

Marine mammal ivory (walrus, Odobenus rosmarus)
Dimensions: Height 8.4cm Width 3.8cm
Okvik civilization
Presumed period: Old Bering Sea I (200 BC – 100 AD)
St Lawrence Island,
Bering Sea
Alaska, USA

Source :
Michel Van den Dries Collection, Gavere, Belgium

More details

This type of object was used to collect fat from walrus and seal intestines.
According to Allen ^Wardwell1, scrapers from the Okvik period were decorated with simple geometric motifs like this one.

For similar models see :
Fitzhugh et al. Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait,
Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, Yale University Press, 2009, pg. 131, pl. 10

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1- Allen Wardwell, Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait,
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1986, pp. 50/51

Price: €1,700

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