Small Greenland Inuit Wooden Articulated Figure with Sinew Tied Shoulders vintage stamp art The leather is hardened and

The leather is hardened and nearly black

with crescent moon and stars shining overhead

The teapot measures 4" tall

--embedded in them

but this one is signed (in Deming's writing)

Small Greenland Inuit Wooden Articulated Figure with Sinew Tied Shoulders vintage stamp art The leather is hardened andAt one point this small carved, articulated Greenland Inuit figure surely wore a traditional hide fur parka and pants, but those are long gone. All the better, though, to see the carefully pegged joints and sinew tied shoulders! I've bought and sold a few larger old Inuit wooden dolls over the last number of years, among my favorite things in the world, but don't believe I've see such a diminutive fully jointed one as this before. C. 1920s so I would