Amazing Alaskan Inuit Scrimshawed Creature with Tiny Legs (and Some Losses) antique treen spice box Calligraphic drawing also gave the

Calligraphic drawing also gave the accomplished scribe a means of showing his or her ability and gave penmanship masters a way to advertise their profession

and remnants of white paint over the wheels and along the sides

which is wonderfully strange

This guy sure seems to me as if he always existed-- as if he just washed up on the shore one day fully (or almost fully) formed

A charming little curiosity to have around

Amazing Alaskan Inuit Scrimshawed Creature with Tiny Legs (and Some Losses) antique treen spice box Calligraphic drawing also gave theThis incredible carving shows some damage missing part of the tail (hard to know how long it once was), one inlaid eye (carved of baleen I believe) and with what I believe is a glued repair to the trunk about midway down, and perhaps something once extended from the mouth as well as the surface is rough there but what a fantastic creature nonetheless. What sort of creature I am not sure and have not found another quote like it; perhaps a mythological