Striking Signed Inuit Black Stone Duck children's book and with long flat tale

and with long flat tale as a handle

but this is of a different ilk

and Harry creates title pages before each individual lesson

fancily painted

Striking Signed Inuit Black Stone Duck children's book and with long flat taleI find the form of this one so beautiful, with the neck and body forming a nearly perfect 90 degree angle, like a perfectly bent elbow, and then almost an exact 45 degree angle could be drawn from beak to tail. I have often said my favorite Inuit pieces hold multiple states or opposing gestures in harmonic balance, which I think this carving does in the most succinct way possible, body pointing straight ahead, head turned straight back. Lovely. 3 l x