λThree Inuit model sleighs Greenland pine, cedar and bone, the wooden examples with bone runners, the larger with an articulated figure and three polar bears, the largest 19.5cm long, model toys including buckets, stools, dishes, drying racks, harpoons and a rifle, two bone toggles, two cedar boxes, a quantity of worked cedar joints and a scale model of a kayak frame. (a lot) Provenance Polar Explorer Lieutenant Commander Quintin Riley (1905 - 1980) and thence by descent. Quintin Riley was involved in the British Arctic Air Route Expedition of 1930 - 31 for which he received the Polar Medal and returning to Greenland in 1932 to undertake further meteorological and general study of flying conditions. Read more »
λThree Inuit model sleighs Greenland pine, cedar and bone, the wooden examples with bone runners, the larger with an articulated figure and three polar bears, the largest 19.5cm long, model toys including buckets, stools, dishes, drying racks, harpoons and a rifle, two bone toggles, two cedar boxes, a quantity of worked cedar joints and a scale model of a kayak frame. (a lot) Provenance Polar Explorer Lieutenant Commander Quintin Riley (1905 - 1980) and thence by descent. Quintin Riley was involved in the British Arctic Air Route Expedition of 1930 - 31 for which he received the Polar Medal and returning to Greenland in 1932 to undertake further meteorological and general study of flying conditions. Read more »
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