Beautiful Early 20th C. Miniature Inuit Qamutiik Hunting Sled victorian cartoon I love that the color

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

12 pages filled front an d back (24 pages of writing

and that the American Museum of Natural History in New York was the primary place to get them

including lining the interior of the box with wallpaper

Beautiful Early 20th C. Miniature Inuit Qamutiik Hunting Sled victorian cartoon I love that the colorI 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