Woman with Three Arms, Antique Watercolor Drawing with Die Cut Frog small bowls A wonderful little finely hand-carved

A wonderful little finely hand-carved wooden Black Forest bear

presumed antique condition

To my eye a super satisfying thing on many levels

This piece was carved of porous whale bone--with grey shell used for the pupils and white walrus ivory for the irises--by Alaskan Inupiat master carver Mark 'Delutak' Tepton

Woman with Three Arms, Antique Watercolor Drawing with Die Cut Frog small bowls A wonderful little finely hand-carvedThis is one of several watercolor drawings which I find completely marvelous and clearly product of a most lively and inventive mind and hand, and which I'll be more than happy to keep for myself that I know were salvaged from a scrapbook sketchbook that lived from many years in the possession of a collector (of the hoarder disposition), whose huge, amazing collection was badly damaged in a flood. Such a heartbreaking thing, as the few drawings