Striking Signed Inuit Black Stone Duck Manuel Jimenez though combining them encouraged me

though combining them encouraged me to think behind the square at how these might spread out to make all sorts of of other shapes and patterns

This delicate ink and ink wash drawing of two hanging deer was done on the back of the title page of a 1898 copy of the The Strand Magazine

both un-dyed one like these

which could be looped through a belt

and special care taken with the ear

Striking Signed Inuit Black Stone Duck Manuel Jimenez though combining them encouraged meI find the form of this one so beautiful, with the neck and body forming a nearly perfect 90 degree angle, like a perfectly bent elbow, and then almost an exact 45 degree angle could be drawn from beak to tail. I have often said my favorite Inuit pieces hold multiple states or opposing gestures in harmonic balance, which I think this carving does in the most succinct way possible, body pointing straight ahead, head turned straight back. Lovely. 3 l x