Inuit Carved Wood Sea Lion Bookends with Bared Teeth, a Pair wooden duck decoy viscerally satisfying object to hang

viscerally satisfying object to hang on the wall--art without intent

Aside from the missing foot

Someone clearly loved this a lot

Wonderful blue thread stitching a few inches in on the front and back cover

Inuit Carved Wood Sea Lion Bookends with Bared Teeth, a Pair wooden duck decoy viscerally satisfying object to hangLove at first sight with these two, which I believe are Inuit, probably Alaskan, and I'd guess 1940s or so. The mounting of the the carved sea lions (I am pretty sure sea lions rather than seals) to bookend type platforms seems a bit of an afterthought (they're not heavy enough to be very effective bookends, and the nails attaching the carvings to their platforms have some wiggle) but what marvelous and very charming creatures, most especially the