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carved from fossilized whale tooth, with metal eyes. Humanoid figure with grotesque walrus face becoming a skeleton, holds skeletal walrus face and wears another walrus at posterior, height 5.25`. Collected at Ammassalik, Greenland. Tupilaks, originally magical creatures, were often carved by residents of East Greenland (Sturtevant 1984, 5:720).

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