FOSSIL WALRUS IVORY bracelet, 1940's

FOSSIL WALRUS IVORY BRACELET, Yupik people, Alaska, 1940's

Walrus ivory, a traditional material for tools and ornaments by the Bering Sea people for millennia ... broken and lost items, discarded, eventually fossilized.
Since the early 1900's the Yupik people have been digging and refashioning the fossil walrus ivory into jewelry and other products.

This bracelet has 12 polished & drilled plaques, and has been newly restrung on black stretch cord

Size around wrist 7-1/3" unstretched (x 1/2 - 2/3" wide)

Provenance : inherited from an American Air Force pilot flying in Alaska during the 2nd World War

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