CONTACT INFORMATION:
Dave Sweeney SweenDog01@ahgupuk.com
This page has developed from email contacts about other Alaskan artists. If you have one of these Artists and would like to display your art on our page, please email us at SweenDog01@ahgupuk.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
Naguruk, Nuguruk, and Nunuk
As per Dorothy Jean Ray in her book A Legacy of Arctic Art, page 148, “I saw names like “Nunuk” and “Nuguruk” inscribed on pieces at a time when most ivory art was anonymous; few Eskimos in the Nome vicinity signed their work, and if they did, they used a binomial….. I later learned that these objects were made in Seattle, usually mass-produced from a master copy by non-Eskimos in several manufacturing firms. Typical northern subjects were engraved on ivory pieces, usually elephant ivory, with a tag “genuine ivory”, which were then sent to Alaska, where customers mistakenly thought they were buying Eskimo-made objects of walrus ivory,”
We would still like to display these pieces to educate ivory sellers and buyers.
March 2006
from the Alice Cervini collection
