Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage stacked wood frames The icon of the boy

The icon of the boy and chick derives from an old nursery rhyme saying "If you're close enough to put salt on the tail of a bird then you're close enough to catch it

which seems like it could have been inspired by the work of Paul Klee (see Park bei Lu 1938

gives both a softness and a pop to anything in it

who thought it European

Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage stacked wood frames The icon of the boyThe existence of these sort of Inuit dolls makes me happy of course every culture needs dolls, and of course they should be constructed of materials at hand, in this case Caribou antler, with sinew knotted at the joints. A close kinship between them and carved and jointed wooden dolls otherwise, as of course dolls should be able to move! I don't believe this pair, pulled from the same estate, are particularly old, likely later 20th century. Pretty