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Inuit Carving of Goose and Blind Boy. Serpentine. Cape Dorset circa 1977
Inuit Carving of Goose and Blind Boy. Serpentine. Cape Dorset circa 1977
Inuit Carving of Goose and Blind Boy. Serpentine. Cape Dorset circa 1977
Inuit Carving of Goose and Blind Boy. Serpentine. Cape Dorset circa 1977
Inuit Carving of Goose and Blind Boy. Serpentine. Cape Dorset circa 1977
Inuit Carving of Goose and Blind Boy. Serpentine. Cape Dorset circa 1977
Inuit Carving of Goose and Blind Boy. Serpentine. Cape Dorset circa 1977
Inuit Carving of Goose and Blind Boy. Serpentine. Cape Dorset circa 1977

Inuit Carving of Goose and Blind Boy. Serpentine. Cape Dorset circa 1977

$ 316.8

Availability: 100 in stock

Description

This piece was purchased at Alaska on Madison in NYC in the 1990's. The artist was unknown and it was a vintage piece at the time.
This type of serpentine stone is found in the Cape Dorset region. and is a jade-like lime green with darker green and grey mottling and a few crystalline inclusions. The stone used in this piece is variegated and very beautiful.
I believe the sculpture depicts the Inuit legend of a blind boy and a goose/loon whose sight is restored when the bird carries him and dives beneath the surface of a lake. There is also a myth of a girl who only dreams of geese, which it could represent. You can see that there are no facial features on the boy which I take to signify blindness.
If someone can identify the artist, I would be very grateful. It is unsigned but is a work of unusual merit in excellent condition. Auction starts at cost 20 years ago.