1928 Scrimshawed Caribou Bone Snow Knife tool handles elegant hand-thrown lidded pot

elegant hand-thrown lidded pot

I've always got an eye peeled for beautiful antique sets of spillikins

featuring mustaches and beards of real hair

The legs all move easily and he can be positioned to sit/stand in a variety of poses

Such a beautiful form

1928 Scrimshawed Caribou Bone Snow Knife tool handles elegant hand-thrown lidded potAt first I took this scrimshawed blade for a letter opener, but I have since learned that it is, I believe, much more interestingly an Inuit snow knife! From what I have read, some snow knives (as I believe is most likely the case with this smallish, decorated one) were used by young girls as stylists to draw pictures in the snow, with these being passed down from older to younger girls. Other snow knives were used as tools for cutting hard packed