Wonderful Alaskan Inuit Carved Bone Creature with Serrated Jaws, black red green for their indexical nature

for their indexical nature

1850s or so

perhaps just tossed into the air by the man at the top of the ladder

Update: I've learned this pig is a "ramp walker

There’s a dealer in New Hampshire I visit who has been putting these Inuit carved antler birds out one at a time for me to find

Wonderful Alaskan Inuit Carved Bone Creature with Serrated Jaws, black red green for their indexical natureI have had one other Inuit carved creature with a similar form to this one that one was antique and carved of Ivory, this one 20th century I believe and carved of bone, both Alaskan Inuit I am fairly certain. What is more challenging to determine for certain is the creature being represented. The treatment of the legs here, carved in low relief, curled around the body, I've found on a few other historic carvings, including one described (on good