Name/Title
Boat, MiniatureDescription
Oval wooden base. Ivory ship, screwed onto base,has three masts and prow with ten sails. Rigging, crow's nest with removable man 3.4cm L, two lifeboats, anchor and three attached men. Sinew and string and metal pegs. Circle with a dot in the center design on four sails and one lifeboat.
Helen N.P. Pardee Collection Catalog: "104 - Boats carved of walrus ivory - carved by Esquimaux"
Reference: similar one picture on p. 62 of Arctic Art: Eskimo IvoryDimensions
Height
25.6 cmLength
30.4 cmDimension Notes
height includes base
base = 9.8 cmMaterial
Walrus Tusk, String, Metal, Wood, Ivory, Sinew