Inuit Stone Carved Loon folk art lure Executed in black and gray

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

MA I purchased it from

75" tall x

Good overall condition and wheels turn smoothly

with stair step-pattern details in a very dark brown

Inuit Stone Carved Loon folk art lure Executed in black and grayI 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