Wonderful Inuit Carved Green Stone Head, Signed with Disc Number hand lines with no discoloration

with no discoloration

and then almost an exact 45 degree angle could be drawn from beak to tail

which I think only makes her better

with about 1/3 of it (20 pages)  actually filled

I have not touched the copper insert but imagine it would polish up if desired

Wonderful Inuit Carved Green Stone Head, Signed with Disc Number hand lines with no discolorationMy photos do no justice to this one, much better in person, with a strong presence and a richness to the striated green stone that is not well conveyed here. At first I thought a woman, then I thought a man, but of course its always the mystery and multiplicity of aspects held in Inuit carvings like this that makes me love them so much. With wonderful modeling and detailing of the hair, and a mouth slightly more open on one side than the other, as if