13" SIGNATURE Loon by Jimmy Iqaluq *Slender*Inuit art: LoonInuit Artist: Jimmy IqaluqSize: 13" across (beak to tail), 12" Horizontal, 3" high, 2. 5"wideCommunity: Sanikiluaq, NU 2 23Stone: Argillite id: d 9980acjjy **This Item is Eligible for our Layaway Plan. **Jimmy Iqaluq SIGNATURE Loon carving Masterpiece Carving! Museum quality Sculpture! Slender is a very special piece. Jimmy carved her in 2009. He kept her for himself, but recently decided to part ways with her. Slender is so light

The meticulously crafted features 50 years in the making

The round tummy

Why are the bodies out of proportion and often kneeling

cute and cuddly

the look on the faces of the man and the seal alike and the stunning painted scene with the two Inukshuks on the back of the ice floe

Jaco's Inuit figures are becoming legendary

steadies himself on his razor sharp claws and searches the skyline with his amazing inlay eyes

round head parting the frigid Arctic sea

The carving is elevated on a caribou antler stand which gives the illusion of the whale travelling slowly through the ocean

Justly admired for their graceful elegance and acute disposition

His foot is flexed backward in a pose that is reminiscent of a goofy

3 or 4 paws and feet