Basil Aptanik, Inuit Stone Carved Figure with Wonderful Face and Bone Tool Cameroon with a nice warm patina

with a nice warm patina to the brass

Signed Palmer at lower left

and there is some cracking to the rest of her hair

This pair is heavy enough to hold up even the heaviest row of art books--or perhaps  ideally a bunch of tomes about self sufficiency

Rare to find one with the original wicker covered lid

Basil Aptanik, Inuit Stone Carved Figure with Wonderful Face and Bone Tool Cameroon with a nice warm patinaThis may be my favorite piece of Inuit sculpture I've owned, which is saying a lot, and I'll be very glad to keep this one for myself. It was created (and signed in syllabics) by carver and printmaker Basil Aptanik (b. 1952) of Baker Lake, Nunavut Territory in Canada and I believe dates to the 1980s. Stepson of the late carver and printmaker Martha Aptanik and stepbrother of the late sculptor Paul Toolooktook, Basil Aptanik's sculptures most often