Alaskan Inuit Carved Tusk Polar Bear Salt and Pepper Shakers qajar lacquer box which for me transforms it

which for me transforms it into a sort of fossilized sculpture

but I really like it just as its own thing

I believe this arrow is a fragment of a 19th century weathervane

to form the scales

Alaskan Inuit Carved Tusk Polar Bear Salt and Pepper Shakers qajar lacquer box which for me transforms itI've had a couple of Alaskan Inuit polar bears carved of walrus tusk, but never a shaker, or two! I found these at Brimfield, and of course it's the faces I couldn't resist, with carefully carved teeth inside those red painted open mouths. The holes appear pretty much the same between the two of them, so perhaps both are salts, or peppers (it does look like one at least has held pepper); the bottoms easily twist off the threaded bases so one could