Wonderful Old Inuit Carved Wood Figure in Hide Parka antique pick up sticks The level works and the

The level works and the arm turns all the way around

which was stretched over a wood panel

and are great just treated as blocks spread out on a tabletop for making free form designs

My guess is that it is French or English

Excepting missing arms

Wonderful Old Inuit Carved Wood Figure in Hide Parka antique pick up sticks The level works and theWhat a face. And what a marvelously gestural body. This carved figure is definitely Inuit, I think likely Greenlandic, and I am sure once sat in a hide covered kayak, with his carved hands probably gripping carved wooden oars. The leather of his coat has aged and hardened in what I find a most beautiful way, to hold this sort of raised shoulder, dangling hands shrugging posture that feels full of character and full of life. I've looked at enough of