Inuit Stone Transformation Carving with Three Faces gift for kid changing just about right down

changing just about right down the middle of the back

The flathead is 3/16" across

along a bit of pooling of the glaze near the bottom

and The Boston Globe

unless there is a name carved into the underside and hidden by the perimeter of green felt

Inuit Stone Transformation Carving with Three Faces gift for kid changing just about right downI love the immediacy of this Inuit carving, which would fall in to the genre of a a transformation carving, portraying a spiritual metamorphosis of human into animal, or between various animals. Transformations are a frequent feature of traditional Inuit stories from the era of nomadic life on the land in the arctic, and appear regularly in Inuit sculpture. Here the transformation appears to be occurring from both sides, with a human face at the