Sam Mikpegak Inuit (Kuujjuarapik) Carved Stone Girl with Braids antique pen and ink drawing I’m always opening small Victorian

I’m always opening small Victorian era boxes just like this one hoping to find bone letters inside

made long ago from a walnut table leaf

the drawing among them

Paper size is 20 x 16 1/2"

but perhaps corresponds with the idea of some sort of thread or line

Sam Mikpegak Inuit (Kuujjuarapik) Carved Stone Girl with Braids antique pen and ink drawing I’m always opening small VictorianI fell in love with a bunch of things this week, and this singular Inuit carving is high among them I find her so full of life and wide eyed wonder, and oh, those braids. Of substantial size, and even more so presence, she was carved of black marbled stone by Samwillie Mikpegak (1922 2002), signed on the underside along with his disk number E9312. I have turned up a few other works by Mikpegak, who seems to have been a much beloved figure in the