Inuit Stone Transformation Carving with Three Faces Swiss cheese aside for some very minor

aside for some very minor surface cracking to the wood on the seat of the chair

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10 1/4" l x 1 1/4" w

oil in canvas

Inuit Stone Transformation Carving with Three Faces Swiss cheese aside for some very minorI love the immediacy of this Inuit carving, which would fall in to the genre of a a transformation carving, portraying a spiritual metamorphosis of human into animal, or between various animals. Transformations are a frequent feature of traditional Inuit stories from the era of nomadic life on the land in the arctic, and appear regularly in Inuit sculpture. Here the transformation appears to be occurring from both sides, with a human face at the