Alaskan Inuit Carved Tusk Polar Bear Salt and Pepper Shakers antique color plate my very favorite subject

my very favorite subject

and who doesn't need more of that

it is somewhat clearer in person)

for its relative humbleness and honest

2 5/8 t “sitting up”

Alaskan Inuit Carved Tusk Polar Bear Salt and Pepper Shakers antique color plate my very favorite subjectI've had a couple of Alaskan Inuit polar bears carved of walrus tusk, but never a shaker, or two! I found these at Brimfield, and of course it's the faces I couldn't resist, with carefully carved teeth inside those red painted open mouths. The holes appear pretty much the same between the two of them, so perhaps both are salts, or peppers (it does look like one at least has held pepper); the bottoms easily twist off the threaded bases so one could