Amazing Alaskan Inuit Scrimshawed Creature with Tiny Legs (and Some Losses) antique treen spice box which is wonderfully strange

which is wonderfully strange

woven to form a teapot

and will send them

including one just "Baby"

square shoulders

Amazing Alaskan Inuit Scrimshawed Creature with Tiny Legs (and Some Losses) antique treen spice box which is wonderfully strangeThis incredible carving shows some damage missing part of the tail (hard to know how long it once was), one inlaid eye (carved of baleen I believe) and with what I believe is a glued repair to the trunk about midway down, and perhaps something once extended from the mouth as well as the surface is rough there but what a fantastic creature nonetheless. What sort of creature I am not sure and have not found another quote like it; perhaps a mythological