Thule figure

Female «star-gazer»
Early Thule culture
Greenland or Eastern Canada (Newfoundland)
Circa pre-1500 AD.
Mineralized walrus tusk (odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) with a fine crackled patina. The surface has been stabilized.
Height: 7,3 cm
Provenance:
unidentified Canadian geologist
Jean-Paul Agogue collection, Paris
Galerie Alain Bovis, Paris
Alexandre Bernand collection, Paris

The exaggerated female body - possibly pregnant - is shown encased in form-fitting traditional winter-clothing. She stands with superb form and poise in an animated «power-pose» with her distended stomach and well-defined buttocks thrust outward. Her bare head is gracefully thrown back to see the stars and rests on the hood of her anorak. The lower left corner of the mouth is drilled as if for a minute labret insertion.

Object Presented by:
Anthony JP Meyer
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