Inuit Eskimo Carved Tusk Standing Polar Bear Chicago artist they are might heavy

they are might heavy

which I think makes them wonderfully graphic

I can just picture young Gordon Harkrader becoming so deeply immersed in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow that he could not help but to make it his own

to the good I think

looking to me now rather like a sky in a J

Inuit Eskimo Carved Tusk Standing Polar Bear Chicago artist they are might heavySuch a surprise and treat to find this one and a smaller companion the other dayAlaskan Inuit, carved of fossilized walrus tusk, and I believe with a fair bit of age to him. I really love the paws raised, standing position, revealing fat stripe of dentine straight down the length of the belly, and then with wonderful deeper coloration on the upper half of the back. Inked details for face and claws and red for the mouth. Mid 20th c. I believe.