Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage stacked wood frames from flower basket to candlestick

from flower basket to candlestick to snapping turtle

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

though feeling very much like a year round kitty to me

I don't know its origins and while it has some age I am  not sure especially old

gives both a softness and a pop to anything in it

Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage stacked wood frames from flower basket to candlestickThe 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