Boy Commanding Dog, Onlookers, Platform, Amazing and Intense 1918 Snapshot Photo McCoy pottery During the late 1920s and

During the late 1920s and 1930s

like so much of the best Inuit art

--but could hold various sorts of trinkets or mementos now

3 1/2" x 5 1/2"

Clearly they were done by an accomplished artist

Boy Commanding Dog, Onlookers, Platform, Amazing and Intense 1918 Snapshot Photo McCoy pottery During the late 1920s andI find this snapshot quite extraordinary. In the foreground, this child with arm raised in a gesture that feels quite loaded at the moment commanding the attention of his dog, who stands at keen attention. And with that gesture perfectly echoed by the diagonal of the stairs and rails of the platform in the background, also by the diagonal of the of the bodies of two black men at left who have turned to watch. It feels as though the whole scene was