Inuit Carved Wood Sea Lion Bookends with Bared Teeth, a Pair carved decoy I am COMPLETELY in love

I am COMPLETELY in love with these

which appears to have been mailed from Vienna to Davos-Platz in Switzerland in 1907

this might be a good whimsy to gift a a much beloved child

but also a bit of a passive aggressive one

wood is 13/16” thick

Inuit Carved Wood Sea Lion Bookends with Bared Teeth, a Pair carved decoy I am COMPLETELY in loveLove at first sight with these two, which I believe are Inuit, probably Alaskan, and I'd guess 1940s or so. The mounting of the the carved sea lions (I am pretty sure sea lions rather than seals) to bookend type platforms seems a bit of an afterthought (they're not heavy enough to be very effective bookends, and the nails attaching the carvings to their platforms have some wiggle) but what marvelous and very charming creatures, most especially the