Inuit Carved Wood Sea Lion Bookends with Bared Teeth, a Pair porcelain boxes with a nice round handle

with a nice round handle

mostly in one area on the right side lower edge of the front

which I'm listing separately--one by Keith Haring

" I might display them with a mix of the best of the fronts and best of the backs showing

It appears there may have been a monogram carved into the surface just to the left of the bottom edge of blue curtain but it's hard to discern

Inuit Carved Wood Sea Lion Bookends with Bared Teeth, a Pair porcelain boxes with a nice round handleLove at first sight with these two, which I believe are Inuit, probably Alaskan, and I'd guess 1940s or so. The mounting of the the carved sea lions (I am pretty sure sea lions rather than seals) to bookend type platforms seems a bit of an afterthought (they're not heavy enough to be very effective bookends, and the nails attaching the carvings to their platforms have some wiggle) but what marvelous and very charming creatures, most especially the