Product Overview
A carved walrus made of walrus ivory with baleen eyes, created and signed by a Native artist - Leonard Apangalook of Gambell, Alaska. Leonard is a Siberian Yupik walrus ivory carver born in 1961 in the village of Gambell, AK on St. Lawrence Island. Leonard’s Siberian Yupik name is Imaghmii. Leonard began carving at a young age and was encouraged and guided in the art of ivory carving by his uncle Paul Apangalook, a well collected ivory carver in his own right. Now resides in Sitka, Alaska with his family.
Approx. 5.5" x 2" x 1.5".
