Finely Carved Inuit Green Serpentine Stone Polar Bear (Henry Evaluardjuk?) Japanese book with cap still in place

with cap still in place

1920s and just fun little things

and nice row of nails showing through at either end of the black painted roof

and even better when those environs are filled with books and art objects

and I believe vintage rather than antique

Finely Carved Inuit Green Serpentine Stone Polar Bear (Henry Evaluardjuk?) Japanese book with cap still in placeI purchased this one at Rhinebeck from a dealer who found it in an antiques shop in Florida and knew nothing about it. I look at a fair number of Inuit stone carvings, but rarely come across one in this glorious serpentine green stone, which looks like a sort of mottled Jade, and here, polished to a high finish, is just gorgeous. Unsigned, but I have some notion it may be the work of Henry Evaluardjuk (1923 2007), Iqaluit, of Frobisher Bay, Canada