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Ivory hunter by Carson Sockpick, 2.5" tall on fossilized Ivory on white ivory base. Carson Sockpick is a well known scrimshaw artist, otherwise known as a scrimshander. Although Alaskan natives have been carving and etching ivory and bone for thousands of years, it is commonly believed that the more formal scrimshaw work by Alaskans originated when New England whalers exchanged goods and scrimshaw expertise with coastal peoples sometime in the late 1800s.
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