Franz Boas (1858-1942) - Kayaker

Kayaker

hide, ivory, fur, sinew, wood
8.3 cms x 18.39 cms x 67.89 cms (3.27 ins x 7.24 ins x 3.27 ins)
Germany
Lot offered for sale by Waddington's, Toronto at the auction event "Inuit Art Online Auction" held on Thu, Feb 28, 2013.
Lot 28
Estimate: CAD $300 - $500
Sale price withheld by the Auction house

Lot description - from the online catalogue*


The German-born American anthropologist, Franz Boas, was a specialist in North American Native cultures and languages in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Boas made a number of significant contributions in anthropology and ethnography, including the formulation of problems and methods in the human growth, linguistics, mythology, and art of the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast.
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Kayaker by artist Franz Boas