Large Inuit Stone Carving of Hunter Consuming Seal (with Damage) ninth plate This guy though has strings

This guy though has strings still attached to head

who looks very much like the young man to the right of him

The sliding top works fine

and which continued to operate and export its wares until the 1980s

--but I'm sure glad someone saved it

Large Inuit Stone Carving of Hunter Consuming Seal (with Damage) ninth plate This guy though has stringsNot for everyone I'm sure, but I find this quite a beautiful and powerful piece and it's a huge one, 14 pounds of stone. I am pretty certain the subject here is a hunter consuming a freshly killed seal, the head of which seems already to have been cut. From what I have read, it would be traditional practice to consume certain parts of the seal at the site of the hunt raw, while the body of the seal was still warm, in turn warming the body of the