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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 585395, member: 301&quot;]That&#039;s some nice ivory.....</p><p>but if Mark wanted me to look at them....he could invite me over for coffee....I&#039;m only 15 minutes away !!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /></p><p>.With that out of the way.....thank you Bronwen &amp; Dawnno....!!!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Alas........Alas-ka.....or Alaskan Eskimo.....is and has been such a huge market...with so many artists...known and mostly unknown..... that I can only add with a modicum of certainty that these do indeed look to be post WW2 production when the market saw an increased demand for traditional slice of life scenes that evoked life in the north.</p><p><br /></p><p>It may be possible....to ballpark the area where some of these were made, by focusing on the images, like the model of canoe.....which were closely related to certain areas of the north.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]175548[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]175549[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]175550[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>thus...for example ....this tusk...likely from the Hooper bay area.....</p><p><br /></p><p>but to say I know more than this....... for now...would be hubris, at best ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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