Large Inuit Stone Carving of Hunter Consuming Seal (with Damage) ninth plate This guy though has strings

This guy though has strings still attached to head

This wonderful little turtle-shaped Coushatta hanging “effigy” basket is made of coiled Louisiana native pine needles sewn together with raffia

who looks very much like the young man to the right of him

like rolling hills along horizon lines

Large Inuit Stone Carving of Hunter Consuming Seal (with Damage) ninth plate This guy though has stringsNot for everyone I'm sure, but I find this quite a beautiful and powerful piece and it's a huge one, 14 pounds of stone. I am pretty certain the subject here is a hunter consuming a freshly killed seal, the head of which seems already to have been cut. From what I have read, it would be traditional practice to consume certain parts of the seal at the site of the hunt raw, while the body of the seal was still warm, in turn warming the body of the