Amazing Old Primitive Wooden Grater with Embedded Rock Shards welded copper dog with what look like big

with what look like big pink ears (plus tiny brown boots)

like this boat and its crew are in their own little world as they gather their bounty

which happily one can turn and rearrange as desired (the bone posts are easily removed from the undersides of the narwhal and holes in base

Painting: 14 x 11 1/8"

Amazing Old Primitive Wooden Grater with Embedded Rock Shards welded copper dog with what look like bigThis I believe is one of the most amazing things I've ever found, which I'd be inclined to call a "made do" creation, though one which must have required a great deal of work to make do. Perhaps it was first made as a cutting board, I'm not sure, but hundreds of tiny chips of rock (looking rather like teeth, and gathered from where I am not sure, perhaps remnants of some sort of chiseling or chipping process?) were painstakingly embedded into it