Alaskan Inuit Carved Tusk Polar Bear Salt and Pepper Shakers old concrete figure I am not sure if

I am not sure if the slide-top box I found them in was made custom for them

Kaleidoscope glass is 1 3/4" in diameter

making her feel  open and as if about to whisper some wisdom across time

Signed (incised) Marlis on the underside

Commerical St

Alaskan Inuit Carved Tusk Polar Bear Salt and Pepper Shakers old concrete figure I am not sure ifI've had a couple of Alaskan Inuit polar bears carved of walrus tusk, but never a shaker, or two! I found these at Brimfield, and of course it's the faces I couldn't resist, with carefully carved teeth inside those red painted open mouths. The holes appear pretty much the same between the two of them, so perhaps both are salts, or peppers (it does look like one at least has held pepper); the bottoms easily twist off the threaded bases so one could