The present composition is wholly original and carries the inventiveness that we associate with the early years of Arctic carving. When turned in the hand, the work presents like a small theatre. From one side you meet the tapering beak of a bird. From another, the blunt head of a walrus comes forward, its tusks set like pale bars against the dark stone. Across the crown, a caribou is laid over, its head bowed to graze, with antlers jutting outward. The red inlaid eyes punctuate the surface with sudden points of colour, while the inset tusks and antlers introduce a pale, tactile contrast against the iron-grey stone, sharpening the relationships and keeping the whole in clear balance, again in the manner of the best early works in the North.