Inuit art

SOLD – Inuit Shamans mask, Ammassalik.  24 cm x 17,5 cm. Ammassalik, East Greenland ca. 1920-30

Provenance: Colonial Administrator Ammassalik Einar Friis-Nielsen.

Hunting amulet for a kayak in the shape of a whale. Walrus tusk. Greenland. 19th cent. H. 7,5 cm.

Provenance: Old Danish private collection.



Ornament for a kayak Walrus tusk. Greenland. 19th cent. H. 9 cm.

Provenance: Old Danish private collection.

Shaman dance mask, carved wood and soot. Ammassalik/Tassilaq, East Greenland ca. 1900-1930. Provenance: Old Danish private collection.


A pair of snow goggles, driftwood. Ammassalik/Tassilaq, East Greenland ca. 1900-1930.

Provenance: Collected in situ by colonial administrator Einar Friis-Nielsen ca. 1930-40.

SOLD – Eye screen. Carved driftwood and bone application. Ammassalik/Tasiilaq. East Greenland. 19th cent.

Litt: The Gustav Holm Collection 1883-85.

Provenance: Ex. Lars and Jytte Soelberg collection, Copenhagen.


SOLD – Box, driftwood with numerous bone applications. Ammassalik/Tassilaq, East Greenland ca. 1900.

Provenance: Old Danish private collection.

Tupilak / transformation figure, carved driftwood and black pigment. Ammassalik/Tassilaq, East Greenland ca. 1900-1930.

Provenance: Old Danish private collection.


Gun support carved driftwood with female mask. Ammassalik/Tassilaq, East Greenland ca. 1930. Published: Greenlandic mask, Ib Geertsen. 1994. P. 90. Ref: Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac.

Provenance: Collected ca 1930 in Ammassalik/Tasiilaq by Inuit priest and MP Elias Lauf (1894-1981). Ex. Lars and Jytte Soelberg collection, Copenhagen.