#1003 • Inuit Walrus Bone Oosik Club with a Bear Figure

Part of Professor’s Collection Part One: Pacific & Pre-Columbian Artifacts (live auction by Blue Box Auction Gallery)

High bid $350.00

Status: Sold

Estimated Value: $450-750 Origin: Inuit, indigenous people of northern Canada and parts of Greenland and Alaska. Dimensions: 21x1.25x1.5 in. Condition: No visible flaws Additional Information: A carved and dyed bone with a carved polar bear head top. Believed to be from he early 20th century. The bone is the oosik is the baculum, or penis bone of a walrus. These clubs were sometimes used as a club for hunting seals and fish.