Wonderful Alaskan Inuit Carved Bone Creature with Serrated Jaws, black red green but I just can’t resist

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

for their indexical nature

Good old used condition

There’s a dealer in New Hampshire I visit who has been putting these Inuit carved antler birds out one at a time for me to find

1850s or so

Wonderful Alaskan Inuit Carved Bone Creature with Serrated Jaws, black red green but I just can’t resistI 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