Ivory – Savage; Dog Team Supply

Hand carved ivory Dog Team by Alaska Native Artist Leonard Savage of Holy Cross, Alaska

Once used for transportation in the winter. The Dog Team is part of Alaska’s history. It was dogs that saved Nome during an epidemic. Nowadays, they are mostly used for sport.

Holy Cross was founded in the late 1800’s by a group of Catholics’. It sits in a small alcove on the banks of the Yukon River in southwestern Alaska