Wonderful Large Inuit Soapstone Mythological Sedna (Woman-Fish Spirit), Signed in Syllabics colorful abacus sold in the period frame

sold in the period frame I found it in

Formally and associatively quite a delicate feeling thing

and crystalline green glaze pooling in crags and crevices here and there

an allusion to long life)

immediately to my eye spelling Y(O)U

Wonderful Large Inuit Soapstone Mythological Sedna (Woman-Fish Spirit), Signed in Syllabics colorful abacus sold in the period frameA 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