Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage stacked wood frames gives both a softness and

gives both a softness and a pop to anything in it

I'm thinking this very sweet cigar box on wheels might have been made by a parent or grandparent long ago as part of a traveling circus set

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Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage stacked wood frames gives both a softness andThe existence of these sort of Inuit dolls makes me happy of course every culture needs dolls, and of course they should be constructed of materials at hand, in this case Caribou antler, with sinew knotted at the joints. A close kinship between them and carved and jointed wooden dolls otherwise, as of course dolls should be able to move! I don't believe this pair, pulled from the same estate, are particularly old, likely later 20th century. Pretty