Peter Mayac Alaskan Whale Tooth Scrimshaw, Bird Scenes

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Peter Mayac Alaskan Whale Tooth Scrimshaw, Bird Scenes

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Sold Date: 03/17/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

You are bidding on a whale tooth scrimshaw carving by Peter Mayac of the highly esteemed Mayac Family. It is carved on both sides with Gulls and Crested Auklets and signed "P. Mayac". It is 4.5" tall and 2" across. It is in excellent condition with minor cracks on the base.
California buyers will pay 8.25% sales tax. Shipping and insurance is $15 within the US and $30 worldwide.

This lot is fully guaranteed. I will refund your money if it is not as described.

I will be offering many more items from the collection of Dr. Bob, a doctor of veterinarian medicine. He passed away last December at the age of 86. Dr. Bob spent a great deal of time in Alaska, back in the 60's he went on an actual (legal) whale hunt with the Inuits. To his credit he volunteered his services for more than 10 years to the Iditarod Race in Alaska. He was appointed as the Official Iditarod Veterinarian one year in the late 1970s. The items I have listed come from his extensive collection acquired mostly during the 1960s and 1970s. T are numerous items from the Peter Mayac family as well as from many other fine Native Alaskan artists.
About the Mayac Family (from ):
"The Mayac Family is one of the best-known ivory carving families in Alaska. Originally from King Island, Alaska, they have gained an international reputation for their realistic walrus ivory carvings of arctic birds. Ted Mayac, Sr., and Al Mayac learned to carve from their father, Peter Mayac. Peter learned to carve as a young man when he would go with other villagers to Nome. While they would sit on the shore under their beached boats to sell their fish, they would pass the time carving ivory. Today, Al Mayac, Ted, Jr., and their cousins, Larry and Fred Mayac, are full time carvers whose attention to detail -- carving each feather and painstakingly painting each one -- has landed their art in collections around the world. Rita Mayac, Ted, Sr., and Al's sister, is also an artist, carving graceful, smaller figures and well known for her ivory earrings."