Featured Bear Carving- Possible Soapstone? Possibly Inuit?

Once again, I am wondering if anyone knows what this is. Thank you

 

You've been AI bombed: INUIT not INTUIT (they make a popular accounting software). You can try 'thread tools' to see if change is possible, but it may be too late to change.

Not at all my area of expertise, but does look NW to me, although the Zuni Herbert Him also specialized in bears. Are there any marks at all?

 

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the way the faces are blurred , makes me think Alaskan.

@Mark London ( the birthday boy..)

 

those are Grizzly bears..... not Polar..

 

I will check and get back...Thank you

 

You're right!

 

OK you two, I'll bite. How can you tell? Thought polars were really grizzlies gone north. Grolars/pizzlies are already known.

 

fat face vs lean face
short snout . long snout
ears high and up front . ears wide and set back on the head
thick neck . long neck




Alaskans carve both bears , the Inuit live above the tree line and only know the white bear.