Sam Mikpegak Inuit (Kuujjuarapik) Carved Stone Girl with Braids lock shaped key holder one can almost picture the

one can almost picture the loops being made

side cast gaze of this young woman seeming to sparkle with a coy mischievousness

or at least a swindler of some sort

which makes it seem a bit like an Opium-fueled vision

Sam Mikpegak Inuit (Kuujjuarapik) Carved Stone Girl with Braids lock shaped key holder one can almost picture theI fell in love with a bunch of things this week, and this singular Inuit carving is high among them I find her so full of life and wide eyed wonder, and oh, those braids. Of substantial size, and even more so presence, she was carved of black marbled stone by Samwillie Mikpegak (1922 2002), signed on the underside along with his disk number E9312. I have turned up a few other works by Mikpegak, who seems to have been a much beloved figure in the