Beautiful Early 20th C. Miniature Inuit Qamutiik Hunting Sled victorian cartoon It does turn

It does turn

A perfect box for all sorts of souvenirs indeed

is larger and more substantial than most I have seen--carved I believe to pass for a book on the shelf--and quite a satisfying one to release by sliding the lid

It has a very minor nick on the edge of the bowl of the spoon

Beautiful Early 20th C. Miniature Inuit Qamutiik Hunting Sled victorian cartoon It does turnI 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