Beautifully Primitive Old Canadian Folk Art Wooden Animals sculptural wooden toy and these old shoe-shaped snuff

and these old shoe-shaped snuff boxes are such wonderful

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I chased a bunch of mid-c Italian pottery online to find one ashtray featuring essentially the same pattern as the lid on this box

which in this case I think makes it better and all the more atmospheric

indicating diagonal sliding of playing pieces

Beautifully Primitive Old Canadian Folk Art Wooden Animals sculptural wooden toy and these old shoe-shaped snuffI found these along with the antique Inuit miniature sled just listed, and while I don't believe they originally belonged together, I do believe, based on a note from the seller, that these are Canadian in origin too, of a similar age, and if not Inuit certainly they feel aligned in sensibility and essence, with a beautiful no fuss sort of elegance and gravitas to them. Lots of power and fortitude expressed in the forms of those blocky carved bodies!