Amazing Alaskan Inuit Scrimshawed Creature with Tiny Legs (and Some Losses) antique treen spice box with a detailed udder underneath

with a detailed udder underneath

and will send them

This guy sure seems to me as if he always existed-- as if he just washed up on the shore one day fully (or almost fully) formed

and remnants of white paint over the wheels and along the sides

woven to form a teapot

Amazing Alaskan Inuit Scrimshawed Creature with Tiny Legs (and Some Losses) antique treen spice box with a detailed udder underneathThis incredible carving shows some damage missing part of the tail (hard to know how long it once was), one inlaid eye (carved of baleen I believe) and with what I believe is a glued repair to the trunk about midway down, and perhaps something once extended from the mouth as well as the surface is rough there but what a fantastic creature nonetheless. What sort of creature I am not sure and have not found another quote like it; perhaps a mythological