Large Inuit carved and incised cribbage board Inscribed and dated, "Joe Kakavyook" and "1899"
Incised with a seal and walrus, and reindeer, the cribbage board area decorated with incised flowers and leaves and inlaid with baleen.
Provenance: A hand-written note of back of tusk records, "Cribbage Board made from tusk- Alaska Eskimo. Given to A.T.S by Eleanor Cushman Westcott. Belonged to her father Herbert T. Chushman of New Bedford, Mass."
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer.
Incised with a seal and walrus, and reindeer, the cribbage board area decorated with incised flowers and leaves and inlaid with baleen.
L: 25 1/2 in.
Provenance: A hand-written note of back of tusk records, "Cribbage Board made from tusk- Alaska Eskimo. Given to A.T.S by Eleanor Cushman Westcott. Belonged to her father Herbert T. Chushman of New Bedford, Mass."
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer.
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Incised with a seal and walrus, and reindeer, the cribbage board area decorated with incised flowers and leaves and inlaid with baleen.
Provenance: A hand-written note of back of tusk records, "Cribbage Board made from tusk- Alaska Eskimo. Given to A.T.S by Eleanor Cushman Westcott. Belonged to her father Herbert T. Chushman of New Bedford, Mass."
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer.
Incised with a seal and walrus, and reindeer, the cribbage board area decorated with incised flowers and leaves and inlaid with baleen.
L: 25 1/2 in.
Provenance: A hand-written note of back of tusk records, "Cribbage Board made from tusk- Alaska Eskimo. Given to A.T.S by Eleanor Cushman Westcott. Belonged to her father Herbert T. Chushman of New Bedford, Mass."
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer.
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