Wonderful Large Inuit Soapstone Mythological Sedna (Woman-Fish Spirit), Signed in Syllabics brass paperclip Loss to wood just about

Loss to wood just about the keyhole

13 5/8" x 10 5/8" x 1 1/8" framed

which seems rather aligned with his youthfulness and rather searching expression (and I must say that without the red robe and tassel

I'm not sure the story with the paint across the front of the two existing drawers

then fits very snugly back into his nicely constructed old slide top box

Wonderful Large Inuit Soapstone Mythological Sedna (Woman-Fish Spirit), Signed in Syllabics brass paperclip Loss to wood just aboutA wonderful vintage carved soapstone Inuit sculpture, unfolding in the round and winning from every perspective. I had interpreted it as a transformation creature, but a great customer suggested that it likely represents, and I am now quite sure she is right, Sedna a mythological young woman who, through a series of trails, from marriage to a man, who turned out to be a bird and held her captive, to the cutting off of her fingers by her father to free