Sam Mikpegak Inuit (Kuujjuarapik) Carved Stone Girl with Braids lock shaped key holder 2 1/4" across at lip

2 1/4" across at lip

While the other was simply thanking the Virgin for her general goodness of late

or at least a swindler of some sort

Much of what I personally love about these sorts of drawings is how vividly one feels they lived in the present in the imagination of their maker

Sam Mikpegak Inuit (Kuujjuarapik) Carved Stone Girl with Braids lock shaped key holder 2 1/4" across at lipI fell in love with a bunch of things this week, and this singular Inuit carving is high among them I find her so full of life and wide eyed wonder, and oh, those braids. Of substantial size, and even more so presence, she was carved of black marbled stone by Samwillie Mikpegak (1922 2002), signed on the underside along with his disk number E9312. I have turned up a few other works by Mikpegak, who seems to have been a much beloved figure in the