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Description:
Two Eskimo Tools, Alaska, 19th century, wood handle ice scraper in the form of a seal, and a walrus ivory fragment with two seal heads, lg. 6 and 2 in.
Provenance: Dr. John Beach Driggs collection. Driggs was an Episcopal missionary physician and educator who served in Point Hope, Alaska, between 1890 and 1910. By family descent.
Estimate $200-300
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