Inuit Soapstone / Bone Figural Carvings

**Originally Listed At $300**

Native American / First Nations, Northwestern United States, Alaska, or Canada, Inuit culture, ca. mid to late 20th century CE. A collection of carved antler, bone, and soapstone carvings and pieces from other sculptures. Included is a soapstone bear, curled up fox, muskox, and hunter holding a miniature bone spear. The long antler panels are drilled with holes which may have served as a base for separately carved animals (missing). The underside of the bone slab the bear is standing on is signed in Inuktitut syllabics and the disc number "E1368" for Edward Iootna. It is unclear what statue this bone base goes to, and there is an extra spear fragment and a bow with a cotton thread. Size of antler panels: 8.5" L x 1.25" W (21.6 cm x 3.2 cm)

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Provenance: private Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA collection

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Condition Report: These are small fragments from larger statues and are not matching. They may have once gone to larger statues or broken off from other statues. One spear is a fragment. Muskox is missing his horns. Bear leg is reattached. One bone slab is signed but the statue is that matches is missing / unknown.