Basil Aptanik, Inuit Stone Carved Figure with Wonderful Face and Bone Tool letterpress print block and black outlines delineating fingers

and black outlines delineating fingers and fingernails

3 5/8" long x 3/4" wide

holding a flower the same very bright red as her lipstick in the other--making these

These are highly collectible and among Tonka's most iconic designs

I might keep these on the desk to bring some levity to even the worst work day

Basil Aptanik, Inuit Stone Carved Figure with Wonderful Face and Bone Tool letterpress print block and black outlines delineating fingersThis may be my favorite piece of Inuit sculpture I've owned, which is saying a lot, and I'll be very glad to keep this one for myself. It was created (and signed in syllabics) by carver and printmaker Basil Aptanik (b. 1952) of Baker Lake, Nunavut Territory in Canada and I believe dates to the 1980s. Stepson of the late carver and printmaker Martha Aptanik and stepbrother of the late sculptor Paul Toolooktook, Basil Aptanik's sculptures most often