Drag handle or toggle carved as swimming seal

Point Hope, North Alaska
18th/19th century
Walrus tusk (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) with a superb patina of age and usage, glass trade beads, skin and whiskers
9,7 cm
Provenance:
Dr. John Beach Driggs collection, Driggs was an Episcopal missionary, physician and educator who served at Point Hope, Alaska, between 1890 and 1910 as the first missionary in the far north By family descent.
Skinners Auction, 2019
Private French collection

Object Presented by:
Anthony J.P. Meyer
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