Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage man with book perhaps in southern Maine

perhaps in southern Maine

I have included a photo

The face is detailed with pencil and what I believe is a natural black dye/ink

3x magnified and more pronounced in photos

The box measures 5 3/4" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/2"

Pair of Inuit Caribou Antler Bone Dolls, Vintage man with book perhaps in southern MaineThe existence of these sort of Inuit dolls makes me happy of course every culture needs dolls, and of course they should be constructed of materials at hand, in this case Caribou antler, with sinew knotted at the joints. A close kinship between them and carved and jointed wooden dolls otherwise, as of course dolls should be able to move! I don't believe this pair, pulled from the same estate, are particularly old, likely later 20th century. Pretty