Intense and Otherwordly Presumed Antique Inuit Carving of Seal toy top Photos do not do this

Photos do not do this justice

helping me to understand through the shape of the feet and the character of the iron that this likely dates to around the 1820s

This one I really like for the lines of it

the wood of the bowl's interior is a bit rough

with an opening of 2" x 2

Intense and Otherwordly Presumed Antique Inuit Carving of Seal toy top Photos do not do thisThis 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