Inuit Carved Antler Bird on Stone Base porthole mirror so finely woven of bear

so finely woven of bear grass with cedar bark rims

which to me is quite a beautiful distillation of how semiotics works

or just to bring a little cheer

Alberto Burri etc

and light foxing here and there--none of which I think much detracts

Inuit Carved Antler Bird on Stone Base porthole mirror so finely woven of bearI went back to the source from whom I recently purchased another Alaskan Inuit bird carved of antler and found this one, which looks to me to represent a goose. I love the lines of it, and the natural darkening in the bone, and the roundedness of the head in contrast to the point of the tail. Two eyes were simply carved out, once blackened but most of the black now gone. The base is a thin, triangularly shaped slab of a slate like stone, which it