Large Inuit Stone Carving of Hunter Consuming Seal (with Damage) ninth plate This wonderful little turtle-shaped Coushatta

This wonderful little turtle-shaped Coushatta hanging “effigy” basket is made of coiled Louisiana native pine needles sewn together with raffia

and not magnetic

a few pencil marks

like rolling hills along horizon lines

Large Inuit Stone Carving of Hunter Consuming Seal (with Damage) ninth plate This wonderful little turtle-shaped CoushattaNot for everyone I'm sure, but I find this quite a beautiful and powerful piece and it's a huge one, 14 pounds of stone. I am pretty certain the subject here is a hunter consuming a freshly killed seal, the head of which seems already to have been cut. From what I have read, it would be traditional practice to consume certain parts of the seal at the site of the hunt raw, while the body of the seal was still warm, in turn warming the body of the