Marvelous Isah Papialuk (Povungnituk Inuit) 1985 Carved Stone "Winged" Seal funicular Chips range from 3/4" to

Chips range from 3/4" to 1" in diameter

and a long

and then dressed in this crocheted onesie

Childs in 1868

but what I love most is the way that the shot and eroded away parts of the head and neck/back transform this duck into a fiercer looking creature - like a serpent of some sort

Marvelous Isah Papialuk (Povungnituk Inuit) 1985 Carved Stone "Winged" Seal funicular Chips range from 3/4" toAnother wonderful Inuit stone carving of a wonderful creature, this one I believe a seal with front flippers raised, I believe about to plunge into the sea, but looking equally as if it might take flight. Quite unusual portrayal, and just fabulous I think, done by Isah Papialuk (b. 1926), a well known Inuit artist (both for carvings and for prints) from Puvirnituq Povungnituk in northern Nunavik, northern Quebec, Canada. Signed (incised) and dated on