VINTAGE Rare 3" Ivory Otter by Matthew Tiulana *Silken*
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Inuit art: Otter
Inuit Artist: Matthew Tiulana
Size: 3” high, 1" deep
Community: Nome, Alaska 10/26
Medium: Ivory
id: C-509980
NOTE** Inuit Art is Handcrafted in Canada
** This Item is Eligible for Our 0% Interest Layaway Plan
U.S. buyers cannot purchase this piece due to Ivory restrictions from the Canadian Government Customs. We ship only to a Canadian address.
Matthew Tiulana fashioned this sleek Ivory Standing Otter in the late 1960s.
Because sea otters like SILKEN do not have a layer of blubber to keep them warm (they rely on their dense fur) they do not live in the True Arctic.
Instead, they live in the more temperate sub Arctic Pacific Ocean (Japan, and Russian thru the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, British Columbia and down to California).
Sea otters are the heaviest members of the weasel family but are one of the smallest of the marine mammals.
Its fur is the densest in the animal kingdom!
Silken can walk on land but is capable of living exclusively in the ocean.
Sea Otters are one of the few mammals to use tools.
Silken loves to use rocks to pry open the shells of her prey like sea urchins.
Silken is a rare piece because she was carved on the Distant Early Warning Line which was replaced by the North Warning System in 1993.
The DEW Line was a collection of Cold War radar and communication stations built across the Arctic, Iceland and Greenland.
This sweet otter represents a fascinating part of World history.
Because sea otters like SILKEN do not have a layer of blubber to keep them warm (they rely on their dense fur) they do not live in the True Arctic.
Instead, they live in the more temperate sub Arctic Pacific Ocean (Japan, and Russian thru the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, British Columbia and down to California).
Sea otters are the heaviest members of the weasel family but are one of the smallest of the marine mammals.
Its fur is the densest in the animal kingdom!
Silken can walk on land but is capable of living exclusively in the ocean.
Sea Otters are one of the few mammals to use tools.
Silken loves to use rocks to pry open the shells of her prey like sea urchins.
Silken is a rare piece because she was carved on the Distant Early Warning Line which was replaced by the North Warning System in 1993.
The DEW Line was a collection of Cold War radar and communication stations built across the Arctic, Iceland and Greenland.
This sweet otter represents a fascinating part of World history.
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