Vintage popular inuit Stone Carving Roosting Bird Signed

An interesting Inuit carving of a huddling bird with its feathers held close to its body. You can almost feel the Arctic winds coming in and buffeting it. Dark chocolate brown stone with nice veining throughout the stone.

The carving is signed in Inuktitut syllabics but theseare hard to decipher as some are confusing or fall off the edge of the carving.

Reads Ai-sa ior I -sa then popular Si-M ( written wrong way), then possibly ta- na or simply va

Isa Simeonie?

Weight: approx. 1 pound 10.5 ounces (750 grams)

Dimension: approx. 5 5/8" long x 3 5/8" high x 1 1/2" deep

'78
official Inuit art registration number 5-90079

bilingual label helps date as made mid 1970s or later.