A Fine Inuit bow drill with Scrimming, Inuit; Alaska
The bow with a stylized bear at one end carved fully raised from the surface, the bow arcing gently with scrimmed designs of animals and hunters on the front and top as well as a whaling hunt to the reverse. Fine old deep creamy patina. L. 10"
Comments: Property of a New England Private collector
Provenance: Purchased decades ago from a New England estate with ties to the whaling trade in the 19th Century.