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Vintage Eskimo Scrimshaw Walrus Beaded Necklace

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
Vintage Eskimo Scrimshaw Walrus Beaded Necklace
This is an outstanding vintage beaded necklace with domed Walrus Tusk Ivory being wonderfully adorned with scrimshaw from an Eskimo Inuit Native American Artist. The piece was purchased by the Paynich family from the artist directly and has been in thier collection since in Great Falls, Montana. The center piece shows a carved, dome of Walrus Tusk, highly polished and finished with hand etched scrimshaw showing an American Bald Eagle catching a fish in an Alaska Mountain scene. The scrimsawh is on Indian tanned hide with multiple borders of glass trade seed beads with a fancy beaded edge. Below is hide fringes with beads, polished pink rhodochrosite beads also from Alaska with number one wampum dentalium shells. The delicate necklace strand shows seed beads, dentalium, rhodochrosite beads as well. Truly a fantastic work of wearable art. Measures overall 25" long along the strand with the pendant area being 7"L by 2.25"W.