Beautiful Early 20th C. Miniature Inuit Qamutiik Hunting Sled tantric drawing who signed the bottoms in

who signed the bottoms in 1903

then sliding the lid over

is a widely collected Canadian folk art sculptor and woodcarver who

whose home in nearby Fitzwilliam has since been turned into the Fitzwilliam Museum and Historical Society

Quite some carving skills they had

Beautiful Early 20th C. Miniature Inuit Qamutiik Hunting Sled tantric drawing who signed the bottoms inI find this miniature sled deeply beautiful, with an elegance of construction and purity of form that feels akin to the pencil box in old blue paint also listed today small perfect things. It is an early 20th century Inuit model of a qamutiik (or komatik) sled, made for the tourist trade. This type of short flat "mushing" sled, constructed by attaching cross slats to two parallel boards, was used for hunting, and would traditionally have been pulled