Inuit Carved Wood Sea Lion Bookends with Bared Teeth, a Pair porcelain boxes but would make a great

but would make a great mirror too

" though pretty great anywhere

with a nice round handle

and elevated octagonal playing board with a very expansive 65 holes

Inuit Carved Wood Sea Lion Bookends with Bared Teeth, a Pair porcelain boxes but would make a greatLove at first sight with these two, which I believe are Inuit, probably Alaskan, and I'd guess 1940s or so. The mounting of the the carved sea lions (I am pretty sure sea lions rather than seals) to bookend type platforms seems a bit of an afterthought (they're not heavy enough to be very effective bookends, and the nails attaching the carvings to their platforms have some wiggle) but what marvelous and very charming creatures, most especially the