SOLD Elegant Inuit Carved Antler Bone Bird pastel 5" wide x 3

5" wide x 3

stains and some creasing around the edges

which perhaps could be used in printmaking processes but is also good just sitting around

and Binney & Smith

SOLD Elegant Inuit Carved Antler Bone Bird pastel 5" wide x 3This beautiful Inuit bird leans dramatically in one direction, so a bit of wax underneath its base might be useful to prevent tipping in the breeze. The tilt is the product of using the natural curve of the antler bone, Caribou antler I believe, as found, and then through minimal gestures giving shape to it as a bird, including the carving of two eyes for the head. I find it quite an elegant thing, which also feels to me like a pure embodiment of