Inuit Carved Wood Sea Lion Bookends with Bared Teeth, a Pair carved decoy wood is 13/16” thick

wood is 13/16” thick

withome light smudges and toning and a small water stain to the upper right corner

Rice (1930-2004)--much more about him below--as part of his Cross Garden just outside Prattville

Wheels of the tractor turn smoothly and evenly and Mickey's head will easily rotate 360 degrees to see all the way around

The "Anima Sola" pictured on this 1903 ex voto retablo is about as existential feeling as they come---while most representations of the Anima Sola show the figure (sometime male

Inuit Carved Wood Sea Lion Bookends with Bared Teeth, a Pair carved decoy wood is 13/16” thickLove at first sight with these two, which I believe are Inuit, probably Alaskan, and I'd guess 1940s or so. The mounting of the the carved sea lions (I am pretty sure sea lions rather than seals) to bookend type platforms seems a bit of an afterthought (they're not heavy enough to be very effective bookends, and the nails attaching the carvings to their platforms have some wiggle) but what marvelous and very charming creatures, most especially the