Beautiful Pair of 19th Century Inuit Caribou Bone and Iron Knives dairy folk art Signed Ida J

Signed Ida J

as found--under glass in a period lemon gold frame

Some blank pages interspersed

She stands on her own

Beautiful Pair of 19th Century Inuit Caribou Bone and Iron Knives dairy folk art Signed Ida JThese two I purchased from a favorite family run shop in New Hampshire, a great cabinet of curiosities always filled with interesting things, ancient to modern. They came from a much larger collection of antique Inuit objects that I believe were formerly held in the collection of an academic institution in New England many many beautiful tools and fragments of tools, most all of which I took the time to pick up and hold, one by one, to to my great