Wonderful Alaskan Inuit Carved Bone Creature with Serrated Jaws, black red green for their indexical nature

for their indexical nature

but I just can’t resist things like this…all that effort someone put into painting it

which I believe is where they originated

original brass liner

perhaps just tossed into the air by the man at the top of the ladder

Wonderful Alaskan Inuit Carved Bone Creature with Serrated Jaws, black red green for their indexical natureI have had one other Inuit carved creature with a similar form to this one that one was antique and carved of Ivory, this one 20th century I believe and carved of bone, both Alaskan Inuit I am fairly certain. What is more challenging to determine for certain is the creature being represented. The treatment of the legs here, carved in low relief, curled around the body, I've found on a few other historic carvings, including one described (on good