Beautiful Early 20th C. Miniature Inuit Qamutiik Hunting Sled tantric drawing (Carved base measures 7 1/8")

(Carved base measures 7 1/8")

a single black "x" below the image

Quite some carving skills they had

There is old repair of a split at one hand

is a widely collected Canadian folk art sculptor and woodcarver who

Beautiful Early 20th C. Miniature Inuit Qamutiik Hunting Sled tantric drawing (Carved base measures 7 1/8")I find this miniature sled deeply beautiful, with an elegance of construction and purity of form that feels akin to the pencil box in old blue paint also listed today small perfect things. It is an early 20th century Inuit model of a qamutiik (or komatik) sled, made for the tourist trade. This type of short flat "mushing" sled, constructed by attaching cross slats to two parallel boards, was used for hunting, and would traditionally have been pulled