Intense and Otherwordly Presumed Antique Inuit Carving of Seal mid-century design object With a small hole in

With a small hole in the belly and two in the back into which a dowel would be stuck in order to make the doll dance (and those shoes are good for clomping)

I believe likely from an opposite page in the scrapbook where it was long housed

I didn't know about "Circasian Beauties" when I found this carte de visite photo by Charles Eisenmann

with a few scattered tiny holes

from a dealer who sells a good deal of both Inuit and Native American pieces

Intense and Otherwordly Presumed Antique Inuit Carving of Seal mid-century design object With a small hole inThis 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