Tiny Spencer's knife handles are crafted from fossil walrus ivory tusks and ivory artifacts from excavations near the villages of Gamble and Savoonga, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. All ivory is pre 1972 from fee simple lands, no antiquity laws apply.
Frequently, fossil walrus tusks are unearthed by the action of the ocean eroding the shoreline beaches or rivers carving out new banks. Over the years, laying in the ice and frozen ground, the ivory takes on many different hues and colors. Depending on the earth's chemicals and the mineral deposits to which it has been exposed, color variations can range from white to multi hues of blue, to black.
The ancient Eskimo had no lumber or steel and created hunting,
fishing, hauling and household tools from walrus ivory, baleen,
antler, bone and oosik. They shaped and constructed the ivory
with jade tipped tools which they sharpened on frozen sand. The
perfect round holes found in net weights and sled runners were
produced by their bow drills. They made full use of natural resources,
the results being tools which were
Completely functional as well as works of art
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An oosik is a baculum, or penile bone of a male walrus