Wonderful Carved Inuit Stone Seal by Noah Nowdlak men on horseback complete with tulips and vines

complete with tulips and vines and all sorts of other flourishes

with lots of scrapes and scratches--to my eye a perfect combo and I would not change a thing

it looks 1940s or so to me

8" tall x 6 1/2" wide (with dress spread flat)

arranged in a precise geometrical formation and glued to a solid wood panel

Wonderful Carved Inuit Stone Seal by Noah Nowdlak men on horseback complete with tulips and vinesI really really love this piece, especially for the straight on view, with the extended front and tail flippers together with raised head giving this seal a great sense of force and reach, and also a sort of bold elegance, which isn't always how one might think of a seal. The black stone with natural vein running across horizontally adds to the effect, a bit like an electric current running down the center of the body. The piece is by widely exhibited