I find the form of this one so beautiful, with the neck and body forming a nearly perfect 90 degree angle, like a perfectly bent elbow, and then almost an exact 45 degree angle could be drawn from beak to tail. I have often said my favorite Inuit pieces hold multiple states or opposing gestures in harmonic balance, which I think this carving does in the most succinct way possible, body pointing straight ahead, head turned straight back. Lovely.

3” l x 2 1/4” t x 1” w. Signed in syllabics with disc number incised into underside. Some surface cracks and irregularities in the stone, which appear indigenous to the stone, and a few light surface scratches, all as documented.