Wonderfully Primitive Walrus Tusk Carved Animal, Presumed Bering Sea Inuit antique british floral study This 12 hole chromonic harmonica

This 12 hole chromonic harmonica in the key of G features a sliding piece (at right)

especially on old metal things (I've included a photo of an arrangement of this and a couple of other recent finds that I just love together)

) x 1 5/8" d

) He may have been a pull toy

--and flouncy heels

Wonderfully Primitive Walrus Tusk Carved Animal, Presumed Bering Sea Inuit antique british floral study This 12 hole chromonic harmonicaPure love. This fabulous creature was carved from walrus tusk, I believe by an indigenous carver from the Bering Sea area. I found another of a very similar animal form in a very similar manner described as a fox (image included in photos) that one 19th century and described as carved by a shaman for a hunter to carry as as a sort of amulet or charm. It is the relative crudeness and immediacy of the carving that make it wonderful to me (and that face,