Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage antique magic lantern Pencil and crayon on lightweight

Pencil and crayon on lightweight cardboard

Like a naive schoolgirl drawing rendered in silk embroidery

(Good for paper weaving

perhaps to be raised when good luck was especially needed

Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage antique magic lantern Pencil and crayon on lightweightThe 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