Artifacts - North America

Bone and wood game or tool with two pieces connected with a leather strap. Possibly a bird shoulder blade or hip bone, or a whale ear bone.  Purpose is unknown. 

dimensions: bone is approx 3 3/4" long x 1" wide

Good Condition. 

Stone skin scraper with bone handle, probably a rib bone.  Stone is probably obsidian

dimensions: approx 4 3/4" long x 2" wide

Good Condition. 

Collection of 3 Alaskan 

Aleut or Inuit Eskimo

Native American Bone Artifacts

SOLD

collected in Alaska circa 1960

Simple and expressive Native American bone folk art carving of a moose or caribou head. Carving is made from a pelvic bone from a seal or possibly a whale vertebrae.  Carving is signed in pen on the inside.  Difficult to read but possibly Aygis Kourmos? 

 

dimensions: 

approx 6" long x 4" high x 4" wide at open end 

Good Condition. 

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