Northwest Coast Walrus Tusk Labret

Description:

Northwest Coast Walrus Tusk Labret, Tlingit, 19th century, oval form, each concave side inset with a deep blue-green pierced abalone shell plaque, lg. 2, wd. 1 in.

Provenance: The Rosman collection, New York City; Sotheby's New York, October 22, 1983, Lot 313; collection of Xavier Martin Comte du Puytison; collected during a bear hunting expedition, by a gentleman of Perigord, France, in Wrangell, Alaska, 1889.
Estimate $500-700


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