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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dawnno, post: 585371, member: 10171&quot;]Totally agree! but, with a &#039;I defer to komokwa&#039; at the ready, and as my avatar suggests, I will take a stab at any native american piece.&nbsp; My impressions are that they are very nice newer artist pieces, not pre 50s.&nbsp;&nbsp; Made for sale in an established art market.&nbsp; Nice to own.&nbsp; The ivory is typically fossil ivory not to run afoul of the marine mammal act.&nbsp;&nbsp; The town may actually be identifiable, and my initial guess is Nome (a guess for a start to research).&nbsp; The images of the hunt, and various activities all strike me as &#039;catering&#039; to a hungry audience on that subject.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have older Inuit carvings on bone (no cribbage boards) and they are typically more &#039;utilitiarian&#039; - until the art market matured.&nbsp; The initial market seemed to have more &#039;dolls&#039; and dog sled carvings, something that mirrored the things that the very first visitors took home, and so the continuation was to make more of those &#039;things&#039;... then the 50s and tourism really created a market for &quot;art&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Cribbage too was a &#039;thing&#039; of the past that would be replicated.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My take at first blush.</p><p><br /></p><p>(You have the dates, but I wasn&#039;t paying attention...)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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