Inuit Carved Wood Sea Lion Bookends with Bared Teeth, a Pair porcelain boxes and elevated octagonal playing board

and elevated octagonal playing board with a very expansive 65 holes

but it seems to me that anything that consumed such time

a pretty great little drawing

with a nice round handle

Inuit Carved Wood Sea Lion Bookends with Bared Teeth, a Pair porcelain boxes and elevated octagonal playing boardLove at first sight with these two, which I believe are Inuit, probably Alaskan, and I'd guess 1940s or so. The mounting of the the carved sea lions (I am pretty sure sea lions rather than seals) to bookend type platforms seems a bit of an afterthought (they're not heavy enough to be very effective bookends, and the nails attaching the carvings to their platforms have some wiggle) but what marvelous and very charming creatures, most especially the