Inuit Stone Transformation Carving with Three Faces gift for kid and what incredibly beautiful objects

and what incredibly beautiful objects I think they are

The very end of the perfume stopper is broken off

along a bit of pooling of the glaze near the bottom

unless there is a name carved into the underside and hidden by the perimeter of green felt

Outside box measures 10"l x7"d x4"t

Inuit Stone Transformation Carving with Three Faces gift for kid and what incredibly beautiful objectsI love the immediacy of this Inuit carving, which would fall in to the genre of a a transformation carving, portraying a spiritual metamorphosis of human into animal, or between various animals. Transformations are a frequent feature of traditional Inuit stories from the era of nomadic life on the land in the arctic, and appear regularly in Inuit sculpture. Here the transformation appears to be occurring from both sides, with a human face at the