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The pictured item is 6 inches long.
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The item is a pestle, a stone effigy likeness of a bear’s head, probably Native American or Inuit.
Since it is so smooth it seems it would be difficult to hold if processing anything of a fatty nature. With its curved midsection, IMHO, it might have been used for grain, or perhaps a stretching tool?
This looks like an inuit carved knife handle to me, or possibly the handle of a staff or cane.
Two guesses; 1. Bottle opener or maybe 2. Corn or wheat grinder, first thought was a pestle, but no bowl, so scratching that idea.
I agree it looks like an Eskimo tool, possibly for pounding grain, or for preparing animal hides, like that of the seal it depicts.
Alternatively, the toothed mouth looks like it could be used as a bottle cap lifter or some sort of jam cleat to apply torque to a round object like a dowel or bundle of wire, but that seems a pretty far fetched idea.
Looks like a marble or granite pestle for grinding grain to flour or other pounding in cooking, e.g. veal or chicken cutlets.
Interestingly the curved bottom, approximating the curvature on reentry surface of space capsules, seems a good fit for the African stool in a Hilliard & Co. auction catalog, the seat of which could serve as the mortar!