Basil Aptanik, Inuit Stone Carved Figure with Wonderful Face and Bone Tool letterpress print block and black outlines delineating fingers

and black outlines delineating fingers and fingernails

but I personally don't mind at all seeing the wear and edges on something like this

and cowboy-looking figures standing next to what I assume is a fire

3 5/8" long x 3/4" wide

Basil Aptanik, Inuit Stone Carved Figure with Wonderful Face and Bone Tool letterpress print block and black outlines delineating fingersThis may be my favorite piece of Inuit sculpture I've owned, which is saying a lot, and I'll be very glad to keep this one for myself. It was created (and signed in syllabics) by carver and printmaker Basil Aptanik (b. 1952) of Baker Lake, Nunavut Territory in Canada and I believe dates to the 1980s. Stepson of the late carver and printmaker Martha Aptanik and stepbrother of the late sculptor Paul Toolooktook, Basil Aptanik's sculptures most often