Wonderful Large Inuit Soapstone Mythological Sedna (Woman-Fish Spirit), Signed in Syllabics colorful abacus A very beautiful image I

A very beautiful image I think

I think this one would make a great frame for an old painting on board

and crystalline green glaze pooling in crags and crevices here and there

Formally and associatively quite a delicate feeling thing

Wonderful Large Inuit Soapstone Mythological Sedna (Woman-Fish Spirit), Signed in Syllabics colorful abacus A very beautiful image IA wonderful vintage carved soapstone Inuit sculpture, unfolding in the round and winning from every perspective. I had interpreted it as a transformation creature, but a great customer suggested that it likely represents, and I am now quite sure she is right, Sedna a mythological young woman who, through a series of trails, from marriage to a man, who turned out to be a bird and held her captive, to the cutting off of her fingers by her father to free