Wonderful Large Inuit Soapstone Mythological Sedna (Woman-Fish Spirit), Signed in Syllabics colorful abacus and crystalline green glaze pooling

and crystalline green glaze pooling in crags and crevices here and there

frequently figural and often in the shape of animals

I think this one would make a great frame for an old painting on board

an allusion to long life)

Wonderful Large Inuit Soapstone Mythological Sedna (Woman-Fish Spirit), Signed in Syllabics colorful abacus and crystalline green glaze poolingA wonderful vintage carved soapstone Inuit sculpture, unfolding in the round and winning from every perspective. I had interpreted it as a transformation creature, but a great customer suggested that it likely represents, and I am now quite sure she is right, Sedna a mythological young woman who, through a series of trails, from marriage to a man, who turned out to be a bird and held her captive, to the cutting off of her fingers by her father to free