Inuit Stone Carved Loon folk art lure Really a wonderful thing

Really a wonderful thing

Executed in black and gray ink on a rice-type paper

Good overall condition and wheels turn smoothly

in purple colored pencil

Inuit Stone Carved Loon folk art lure Really a wonderful thingI find this loon (I believe it is) tremendously satisfying, with its elegant, smoothly carved body offset by its elongated, slightly hooking, more primitively carved head and beak in the most perfect, empathy inducing way. Making it even better is the maker's use of the natural coloration of the stone (soapstone I believe), such that one half of the loon is more of dark gray green, and the other a lighter green brown, changing just about right down