PAIR OF SOAPSTONE "WHALE" CARVINGS

Pair of soapstone "whale" carvings (possibly bookends), signed Dimu, for a German-Canadian artist named Dieter Muckenheim; the works are somewhat mysterious and quite sparse; however, they were his own original design, they are non-Inuit sculpture and his pieces are usually dated between the 1960's and 1990's - height 14.6cm (5 3/4in)