Inuit Carved Wood Sea Lion Bookends with Bared Teeth, a Pair porcelain boxes with a nice round handle

with a nice round handle

" I might display them with a mix of the best of the fronts and best of the backs showing

but would make a great mirror too

and elevated octagonal playing board with a very expansive 65 holes

It is a very old one

Inuit Carved Wood Sea Lion Bookends with Bared Teeth, a Pair porcelain boxes with a nice round handleLove at first sight with these two, which I believe are Inuit, probably Alaskan, and I'd guess 1940s or so. The mounting of the the carved sea lions (I am pretty sure sea lions rather than seals) to bookend type platforms seems a bit of an afterthought (they're not heavy enough to be very effective bookends, and the nails attaching the carvings to their platforms have some wiggle) but what marvelous and very charming creatures, most especially the