Sam Mikpegak Inuit (Kuujjuarapik) Carved Stone Girl with Braids american drawings With glass and a wire

With glass and a wire hanger on the back

Box measures 7 3/4" long x 6 1/2" deep x 1 7/8" tall

Kachinas dolls were traditionally made by Pueblo men

with this elongated body on very short legs

To my taste

Sam Mikpegak Inuit (Kuujjuarapik) Carved Stone Girl with Braids american drawings With glass and a wireI fell in love with a bunch of things this week, and this singular Inuit carving is high among them I find her so full of life and wide eyed wonder, and oh, those braids. Of substantial size, and even more so presence, she was carved of black marbled stone by Samwillie Mikpegak (1922 2002), signed on the underside along with his disk number E9312. I have turned up a few other works by Mikpegak, who seems to have been a much beloved figure in the