Paperweight

late 19th century

18.5 cm 2.8 cm 9.1 cm

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Mammoth tusks preserved in the Arctic permafrost provided a ready supply of ivory. This paperweight shows an Inuit or Yupik family and their reindeer.

Artifact

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28103
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Tiffany & Co., New York; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1916[1]; by bequest to the Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Illustrated and credited to the ""Collection of Henry Walters, Esq."" in George Frederick Kunz, Ivory and the Elephant in Art, in Archaeology, and in Science (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1916), between pages 126 and 127.
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en
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1
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