Exquisite Antique Wood and Hide Inuit Doll, 14 Inches mother dog and puppies I really like the graphic

I really like the graphic quality of the big red EGLANTINE across one side of this old wooden box

and I've come to really love the effect

3510 Made In USA" on one side

I've included a short video for your viewing pleasure

I know from the seller in Virginia I purchased this from that it came from the personal collection of a senior curator at the Smithsonian who died about 15 years ago

Exquisite Antique Wood and Hide Inuit Doll, 14 Inches mother dog and puppies I really like the graphicOne of the most beautiful Inuit dolls I've ever seen or dolls, period and quite an old one, late 19th c. Greenland Inuit I think, and, I believe, what would be considered a "collector's doll" made by a skilled doll maker for sale. Such a wonderfully carved, sensitively detailed face, with head that will turn side to side; body sewn of seal skin and, it appears to me, stuffed with what looks to be white fur, I believe seal as well. Perhaps he once wore