Wonderful Large Inuit Soapstone Mythological Sedna (Woman-Fish Spirit), Signed in Syllabics colorful abacus and crystalline green glaze pooling

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

sold in the period frame I found it in

and a a charming face

what a burden for this sweet pig

Damage to the exterior of the box as documented

Wonderful Large Inuit Soapstone Mythological Sedna (Woman-Fish Spirit), Signed in Syllabics colorful abacus and crystalline green glaze poolingA 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