NZ MUSIC, JEWELLERY, ANTIQUE & ART AUCTION Tuesday, 28 May 2019 / 9:30 am start

An Inuit serpentine carving

Realised: $250 plus premium

Lot Details

of a hunter in a kayak with seal bodies on the deck, with bone paddle, harpoon, gaff and leather thongs. Provenance: Gifted to a doctor practicing 1954-58 at an isolation hospital for TB at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Inuit patients resident for treatment periods of months used serpentine gathered within the grounds for carvings which were gifted to staff. L.300mm.


An Inuit serpentine carving Image 1++
An Inuit serpentine carving Image 1++