Wonderful Alaskan Inuit Carved Bone Creature with Serrated Jaws, miniature structure Really excellent antique condition

Really excellent antique condition

much more pronounced in photos (magnified) than to the eye

and the careful hand-stitches tethering the small bunch of dried roses to the paper

one can almost feel it sniffing out a scent

with irregularly shaped head and ears and a rectangle nailed on top of the body for a tail

Wonderful Alaskan Inuit Carved Bone Creature with Serrated Jaws, miniature structure Really excellent antique conditionI have had one other Inuit carved creature with a similar form to this one that one was antique and carved of Ivory, this one 20th century I believe and carved of bone, both Alaskan Inuit I am fairly certain. What is more challenging to determine for certain is the creature being represented. The treatment of the legs here, carved in low relief, curled around the body, I've found on a few other historic carvings, including one described (on good