Featured Some More Inuit Whalebone Carvings

Just showing off these, as I have no specific questions. But of course any comments are welcome.

 

Cool! I like the first one best. Is it a vertebra?

 

That is my favorite, too. I'm not sure what bone. I will need to study up on whale anatomy.

 

I like the bears....I have a single....same pose, just a little more refined..

 

Very nice indeed. Now, I admit to being guilty of this myself from time to time, but technically it is "whale bone" rather than "whalebone" which specifically (but perhaps erroneously) refers to baleen.

 

Here are some more to extend the thread...

 

Very nice pieces, of course. I particularly like the first one, of signaling walruses.

Thanks for the correction. I should have dredged that up from my mental files on costume history (busks and corset stays).

 

as I said, I make the same mistake all the time (old habits die hard)

 

These are amazing. Thank you for sharing!

 

Yeah-- very cool. Thanks for sharing those.

 

that's a nice grouping of carvings u have......!!!

.here's mine......she's very sweet..
I call her , curios cub !
ignore the price tag......it's the I don't want to sell it........but for $$$$
......I could change my mind......

and no , I don't like the base , but at one time , lucite was all the rage....


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Because she is! Very charming, all the ones posted here are wonderful.

 

Very nice. They certainly could be a family, right down to the dark peg eyes (baleen?).

 

baleen , being more of an Alaskan thing....I'd think they were something other..

Thanks..

 

And another

 

Well, now you are just showing off.
Do they have catfish up there? Or is it an Inuit fever dream? I definitely like it. It reminds me of the Makonde carvings of bush spirits called "shetani".