Inuit Carved Stone Otter Gripping Fish broccoli sculpture I can't resist an old

I can't resist an old handmade wooden house

8 1/2" x 12" and in overall good condition

this one of a Master Samuel Brown

with “But the Devil comes in last” on the very last page

The San Jose mission was founded in 1797 by the Franciscan order--the 14th Spanish mission established in California--and

Inuit Carved Stone Otter Gripping Fish broccoli sculpture I can't resist an oldOne of two more Inuit carvings from a handful I bought last week, I believe all of which came from one collection, and to my eye a very good collection as I was tempted to buy many more. Not as frequent a subject as a seal or a bird or a figure, and I especially love the treatment of this otter's flipper like paws, especially the hind ones as they grip the rock he balances on, as if holding very tight with his tail doing the same from the back side. I