SOLD Wonderful Inuit Carved Stone Head with Mustache and Goatee, Dated 1967, Signed Elijah hand thrown tea bowls Another bird plate

Another bird plate

framed by more sticks and bits

When I your love remember / Such wealth it brings / That them I scorn to change / My state with kings

from whom he adopted his first name

SOLD Wonderful Inuit Carved Stone Head with Mustache and Goatee, Dated 1967, Signed Elijah hand thrown tea bowls Another bird plateI really really love the face on this Inuit carving, which photos don't quite do it justice as it really unfolds in the round. The combination of the sculpturally carved, polished black stone of the head and more crudely scratched details for the eye brows, eye balls, mustache and goatee really does it for me, making it feel like a sculpture and drawing at once, with a great sense of immediacy. Not large, but substantial, with quite a striking