Inuit Carved Antler Bird on Stone Base watch holder So great in every way

So great in every way

rather than risking sending it (inevitably) through someone’s window

a smiley face

What a beauty

which feels straight from a German Expressionist woodblock print

Inuit Carved Antler Bird on Stone Base watch holder So great in every wayI 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