Another Wonderful Inuit Caribou Antler bird handmade book and then tapering as it

and then tapering as it extends downward along the side of the basket

Watercolor/gouache color is very rich

and with a great form

It was during these years that he made his first sketches and watercolors of combatants

but whether or not the figure here references him I am not sure

Another Wonderful Inuit Caribou Antler bird handmade book and then tapering as itTheres a dealer in New Hampshire I visit who has been putting these Inuit carved antler birds out one at a time for me to find, and this is the last of them. I love how these are all about the natural curves of the antler bone, Caribou I believe, with minimal interventions to render them as birds. I find this one a great combination of elegant and awkward, with its long neck, inked eyes and hooked beak reminding me very much of a root head decoy,