INUIT SPEARTHROWER
LIKELY ALUTIIQ PEOPLES, ARCTIC
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
Auction: 13 March 2025 from 13:00 GMT
Description
carved wood, shaped with a contoured handle featuring three finger grooves for grip, obverse carved to suggest a sea otter, with incised horizontal vertebral lines along half the length, rich patination
Dimensions
48.3cm long
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market and forming part of a private collection established over the past thirty years
Footnote
For similar please see: The British Museum, London, accession number Am1985,Q.31
Literature:
Cf. Steven C. Brown, Transfigurations: North Pacific Coast Art. George Terasaki, Collector, Seattle, 2006, n.p., pl. 44