Wonderfully Primitive Inuit Stone Carved Owl carving of standing woman 5 1/4" long measured beak

5 1/4" long measured beak to tail

I've long been admiring both the forms and the glorious color on early croquet posts

and a pretty old one I believe

that sender and the recipient wound up together for the rest of their lives

and red with some print on it for the tail

Wonderfully Primitive Inuit Stone Carved Owl carving of standing woman 5 1/4" long measured beakI came upon a source of several nice vintage Inuit stone carvings of animals this week this owl is the first of several I will be listing. As with many of my favorite Inuit pieces, it is the conveyance of great expressiveness through minimal means that I think makes this owl especially beautiful, and the green gray stone with dark veins is just right. Great spare form (this owl feels rather Brutalist to me in the best of ways), with just a suggestion