Amazing Alaskan Inuit Scrimshawed Creature with Tiny Legs (and Some Losses) jardiniere 11 3/4" l x 5

11 3/4" l x 5 1/8" w x 2 1/4" t

Executed in black ink and watercolor on rag type paper that itself has some age

Large one measures 3 1/8" t x 1 1/2" in diameter

perhaps a record of its owners rather than its maker

and this is an especially lovely one

Amazing Alaskan Inuit Scrimshawed Creature with Tiny Legs (and Some Losses) jardiniere 11 3/4" l x 5This incredible carving shows some damage missing part of the tail (hard to know how long it once was), one inlaid eye (carved of baleen I believe) and with what I believe is a glued repair to the trunk about midway down, and perhaps something once extended from the mouth as well as the surface is rough there but what a fantastic creature nonetheless. What sort of creature I am not sure and have not found another quote like it; perhaps a mythological