Inuit Carved Stone Reclining Figure shelf with mirrors or "Sweet potato" style ocarina

or "Sweet potato" style ocarina (eight finger holes on the face and two on the back)

4 5/8" tall

This hand-thrown stoneware bowl

and I believe likely more than 100 years old

Inuit Carved Stone Reclining Figure shelf with mirrors or "Sweet potato" style ocarinaI've written before that my favorite Inuit sculptures possess an internal tension, holding apparently competing instincts or states of being in balance. I also tend to love those that more "primitive" than highly refined. Both hold true with this figure, whose posture is everything three quarters reclining, as if at rest, but certainly flexing one's core muscles to hold there! The profile created is of four gently curving steps, and the view from