Scrimshaw Walrus Ivory Cribbage Board

2nd Quarter 20th Century

1.125" H x 14.625" L x 3.5" W

Hand Made from Walrus Ivory into a Cribbage Board and No Game Pegs Included

In Very Good Condition with Some flaws as Pictured

Scrimshaw walrus ivory cribbage boards are traditional functional art objects, typically carved from walrus tusks (or sections of them) by Inuit/Alaska Native (often Iñupiaq or Yup’ik) artists, especially from areas like Nome, the Bering Strait, St. Lawrence Island, or Kotzebue. They feature drilled rows of holes for cribbage scoring pegs and are decorated with scrimshaw (incised/engraved designs, usually inked or pigment-filled) and sometimes carved figures.