Beautiful Pair of 19th Century Inuit Caribou Bone and Iron Knives dairy folk art with six circles divided up

with six circles divided up into differently sized slices and a spinner with sides corresponding to each

The incorporation of the tin running along the sides and over the wheels really does it for me

4" x 2 3/4" overall

very finely ground glass) fuses the paint to the existing glaze permanently

as found--under glass in a period lemon gold frame

Beautiful Pair of 19th Century Inuit Caribou Bone and Iron Knives dairy folk art with six circles divided upThese two I purchased from a favorite family run shop in New Hampshire, a great cabinet of curiosities always filled with interesting things, ancient to modern. They came from a much larger collection of antique Inuit objects that I believe were formerly held in the collection of an academic institution in New England many many beautiful tools and fragments of tools, most all of which I took the time to pick up and hold, one by one, to to my great