Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage antique magic lantern Pencil and crayon on lightweight

Pencil and crayon on lightweight cardboard

with one straight line tear near the bottom white corner of one and a round hole at the top red corner of the same

who I understand from the seller died just recently at the age of 85

It makes a wonderful soft rattle when held and gently shaken

Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage antique magic lantern Pencil and crayon on lightweightThe existence of these sort of Inuit dolls makes me happy of course every culture needs dolls, and of course they should be constructed of materials at hand, in this case Caribou antler, with sinew knotted at the joints. A close kinship between them and carved and jointed wooden dolls otherwise, as of course dolls should be able to move! I don't believe this pair, pulled from the same estate, are particularly old, likely later 20th century. Pretty