Intense and Otherwordly Presumed Antique Inuit Carving of Seal mid-century design object from a dealer who sells

from a dealer who sells a good deal of both Inuit and Native American pieces

with a few scattered tiny holes

croquet I believe

I believe likely from an opposite page in the scrapbook where it was long housed

Intense and Otherwordly Presumed Antique Inuit Carving of Seal mid-century design object from a dealer who sellsThis creature feels to me as if existing apart from time and space primordial feeling, really, with an amazing sort of intensity and presence, and an albino sort of otherworldliness, too. (It's one I'd be especially glad to keep for myself, I'm quite obsessed with it.) I believe it is Inuit, and I believe carved of fossilized Walrus tusk, with the dentine visible in a few places, including a patch on the underside of the neck. And while I believe