Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage man with book glowing pink cheeks

glowing pink cheeks

The box measures 5 3/4" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2"

combining rose and rosebuds

It is just a small fragment

and were meant to serve as guides for writing  and drawing

Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage man with book glowing pink cheeksThe existence of these sort of Inuit dolls makes me happy of course every culture needs dolls, and of course they should be constructed of materials at hand, in this case Caribou antler, with sinew knotted at the joints. A close kinship between them and carved and jointed wooden dolls otherwise, as of course dolls should be able to move! I don't believe this pair, pulled from the same estate, are particularly old, likely later 20th century. Pretty