Beach Scene with Heads Turned and Black Cloud Following Handsome Life Guard, c. 1950s Snapshot primitive old stool Based on the paper label

Based on the paper label glued to his base

standing like a spectre over this young woman

with pair of wonderfully pale pink peaches at center set off perfectly by green grapes above and one black plum

) In my experience it is quite rare to find a carved Inuit figure of this scale

There are spots all over where the silver paint is gone

Beach Scene with Heads Turned and Black Cloud Following Handsome Life Guard, c. 1950s Snapshot primitive old stool Based on the paper labelThe more time I spend looking at it, the more I love this photo, which (as someone who often looks at compositions of bodies through the lens of modern contemporary dance) feels almost like a dance still to me but also one enhanced by this blur of a black cloud hovering over our very handsome young lifeguard. Like three separate choreographed vignettes sharing the same frame: young women in foreground (with great faces!) turning their heads, child