Amulet/Applique Representing a Large Bow Head Whale

Provenance: Ex Michel & Caroline van den Dries, Belgium.

Literature: For comparison see the massive whale-fat container decorated with whale effigies : MEG Inv. ETHAM 025851 and the superb whale-hunters water-bucket : MEG Inv. ETHAM 025852 both from the Alaskan Thule culture of the 19th century now in the Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève.