Beautiful Early 20th C. Miniature Inuit Qamutiik Hunting Sled victorian cartoon Pennsylvania

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including lining the interior of the box with wallpaper

It does turn

I love that the color and style of the text is completely different on opposite sides of this one

A perfect box for all sorts of souvenirs indeed

Beautiful Early 20th C. Miniature Inuit Qamutiik Hunting Sled victorian cartoon PennsylvaniaI find this miniature sled deeply beautiful, with an elegance of construction and purity of form that feels akin to the pencil box in old blue paint also listed today small perfect things. It is an early 20th century Inuit model of a qamutiik (or komatik) sled, made for the tourist trade. This type of short flat "mushing" sled, constructed by attaching cross slats to two parallel boards, was used for hunting, and would traditionally have been pulled