SOLD Inuit Soapstone Figure with Wonderful Face and Inlaid Eyes (Repairs to Feet) locomotive just lovely and lovingly made

just lovely and lovingly made from heads to toes

removed from the frame

Tearing to bottom right corner and a few scattered stains and bumps

I'm really not at all sure

at least to my eye

SOLD Inuit Soapstone Figure with Wonderful Face and Inlaid Eyes (Repairs to Feet) locomotive just lovely and lovingly madeThe whites of the eyes on the face of this fellow lend him a wonderful intensity I think, and as he surely once held tools in his hands, likely a harpoon in one, and or a string with fish, I might guess he was staring wide eyed at his catch. Object less now, I love the ambiguity of his pose, as if he might be holding up anything with a combination of pride and awe and reverence. It appears that his feet were re glued to the base at some point, but