Provenance: private San Francisco, California, USA collection, acquired 1970s to 2000sĪll items legal to buy/sell under U.S. We guarantee that the piece was made prior to 1972. This is an ESA antique exempt piece of ivory and cannot be sold internationally or to anyone residing in the states of California, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Washington. All is highly detailed and beautiful- suggesting the artis was very familiar with their natural surroundings! Size: 24.375' L x 2.375' W (61.9 cm x 6 cm)įor a similar example please see The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, catalog number: 25/1078. The other sides have fish and an encampment with a boat, and more walrus and seals basking on land and swimming. Two pairs of thirty incised holes within rectangular sections filled with black ink create the playing area, surrounded with a scene of caribou, a hand holding an antler, a man in boat hunting seals, and a sled dog. The tusk is polished to even the surface for use as a score board face, and an ivory peg is added to the underside as a foot to balance the board, and at the tip is a large perforation for suspension. A striking walrus ivory tusk, hand carved into a cribbage board with intricate scrimshawed motifs of animals and hunting scenes across the surfaces.

INUIT SCRIMSHAWED WALRUS TUSK CRIBBAGE BOARDNative American, Northwestern United States, Alaska, Inuit or Inupiaq, ca.

Scrimshaw cribbage board