Title
Cribbage Board
Dateearly 20th Century
Mediumivory
Dimensions3 1/4 × 1 5/8 × 19 in. (8.3 × 4.1 × 48.3 cm)
Object number1935.68.28
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionMedium size walrus tusk, trimmed, with squared edges; monochrome engraved on one side only: cribbage board flanked by stylized floral device, and with six rearing reindeer heads with antlers; an in a kayak; a seal emerging from a hole in the pack ice; the bias-cut end reveals a large core of secondary dentine. Peg foot absent. Compare central vignette of 1935.68.25. The feathery, leafy, sometimes winglike ornaments are analogously present in four walrus ivory cribbage boards in the collection, all from the same donor: 1935.68.24, .25, .28, and .31. See N. Hurst, Arctic Ivory, 1998, p. 74.On View
On view
Komoneseok, Billy "Billiken" (same as Billy Kamoneseok)
early 20th Century
early 20th Century
circa 1895-1925
Happy Jack (Angokwazhuk), School of
circa 1920-1940
Circa 1920-1930
1890
