Beautiful Small Labrador Inuit Carved Doll in Seal Skin Parka and Pants carved sled including yourself

including yourself

I really love things that are both intensely of their medium and also entirely transcend it

giving the sense of a whole flock aflight

for example

which has acquired a warm dry wood patina

Beautiful Small Labrador Inuit Carved Doll in Seal Skin Parka and Pants carved sled including yourselfI find the carefully hand sewn hooded parka (made of seal skin I believe) worn by this small Inuit doll quite an amazing thing in and of itself, but also really loved removing it to reveal the fantastic long legged proportions of the doll inside! All the better to see his wonderfully carved and rosily painted face, too. 1920s or so I believe, with a "made in Labrador" sticker still attached to the back of one leg, and so lovely it just about breaks my