Wonderfully Primitive Walrus Tusk Carved Animal, Presumed Bering Sea Inuit rare porcelain candle snuffer 1920's-40's

1920's-40's

which fit together in one particular way (the magnets repel each other otherwise

the box is shot

there is one spot on its neck on the rear side where a little paint has peeled off alongside the red bow

Wonderfully Primitive Walrus Tusk Carved Animal, Presumed Bering Sea Inuit rare porcelain candle snuffer 1920's-40'sPure love. This fabulous creature was carved from walrus tusk, I believe by an indigenous carver from the Bering Sea area. I found another of a very similar animal form in a very similar manner described as a fox (image included in photos) that one 19th century and described as carved by a shaman for a hunter to carry as as a sort of amulet or charm. It is the relative crudeness and immediacy of the carving that make it wonderful to me (and that face,