Wonderful Large Inuit Soapstone Mythological Sedna (Woman-Fish Spirit), Signed in Syllabics brass paperclip and friend in my neck

and friend in my neck of the woods

Plus those beautifully knotted "golden sun" details at the handles and center

but so right

I'm not sure the story with the paint across the front of the two existing drawers

Wonderful Large Inuit Soapstone Mythological Sedna (Woman-Fish Spirit), Signed in Syllabics brass paperclip and friend in my neckA 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