Finely Carved Inuit Green Serpentine Stone Polar Bear (Henry Evaluardjuk?) art palette with a density of looping

with a density of looping lines yielding just about the best drawn afro I've ever seen

My knowledge of 19th c

with a lot of character and presence as well as graphic appeal

At one point surely there was a string that wrapped around this which one would use to set it spinning

Such a fantastic intensity achieved through the most delicate means--barely there but completely present

Finely Carved Inuit Green Serpentine Stone Polar Bear (Henry Evaluardjuk?) art palette with a density of loopingI purchased this one at Rhinebeck from a dealer who found it in an antiques shop in Florida and knew nothing about it. I look at a fair number of Inuit stone carvings, but rarely come across one in this glorious serpentine green stone, which looks like a sort of mottled Jade, and here, polished to a high finish, is just gorgeous. Unsigned, but I have some notion it may be the work of Henry Evaluardjuk (1923 2007), Iqaluit, of Frobisher Bay, Canada