Elegant Inuit Black Stone Carved Owl shop brush A for Effort

A for Effort

another set in…more Color Cubes

There are a couple of stains on the face

where clearly it hung for many many years

and this is a very sweet one--not a bit fussy

Elegant Inuit Black Stone Carved Owl shop brush A for EffortI'm sure this Inuit carving, with its crooked beak, represents an owl, but is a fairly unusual one from what I've found in its minimalism, feeling quite like a modernist sculpture. Very striking I think, with a really strong presence. 4 3 4 t x 5 1 4 long measured on the square; 1 lb 6 oz. Signed (incised) in syllabics with a disc number on the underside. Very good condition, with a few flaws in the stone, which appear native to it.