Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage stacked wood frames including guides for free form

including guides for free form creations

who thought it European

gives both a softness and a pop to anything in it

from flower basket to candlestick to snapping turtle

) Plus those faces

Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage stacked wood frames including guides for free formThe existence of these sort of Inuit dolls makes me happy of course every culture needs dolls, and of course they should be constructed of materials at hand, in this case Caribou antler, with sinew knotted at the joints. A close kinship between them and carved and jointed wooden dolls otherwise, as of course dolls should be able to move! I don't believe this pair, pulled from the same estate, are particularly old, likely later 20th century. Pretty