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Offline Hunts with stone

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Re: Bone carving
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2013, 09:58:09 pm »
Your bone work is Impressive to say the least. I've made a few myself . Gotta try the two peice one. How are you Attaching them together?
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Re: Bone carving
« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2013, 12:17:12 pm »
hope your shoulder heals up quick, Primalartz.
just in case people don't know what combs we're talking about here's one i made
for our Bear clan. bears are considered keepers of the medicines..the herbs and healing plants.
in the past both men and women used these, some were worn in the hair or scalplock.
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Offline Primalartz

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Re: Bone carving
« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2013, 12:25:23 pm »
Thanks, I use ca glue for high stress seams. I normally refine pine pitch to use but it does not hold up for gluing two different materials together
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Offline Primalartz

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Re: Bone carving
« Reply #18 on: March 31, 2013, 12:26:34 pm »
Very nice comb!!! What type of bone did you use
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Re: Bone carving
« Reply #19 on: March 31, 2013, 12:35:37 pm »
I find it so amazing that native cultures separated by 1000's of miles share similar ideas. The Maori of New Zealand wore carved bone combs they called heru which symbolism usually represents healing or protection
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Re: Bone carving
« Reply #20 on: March 31, 2013, 12:45:39 pm »
yep you are right about that.
I've spent 3 weeks among Maori friends in Aotearoa (NZ) and we have a lot of common traditions.
They're proud of their heritage and don't take racist attitudes very well.
Maori connect very deeply with the west coast cedar carvers like the Tlingit,
and respect a person who can introduce themselves and sing in their own indigenous language.
they don't use drums there,  so they really enjoyed hearing the waterdrum I brought that i sing with.
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Re: Bone carving
« Reply #21 on: March 31, 2013, 12:47:17 pm »
the bone i used was from a cow leg bone, but traditionally my ancestors used moose.
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Offline Primalartz

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« Reply #22 on: March 31, 2013, 01:01:43 pm »
That is awesome, I would loved to have been there for that. I have a great respect for native cultures that stand up against Cultural assimilation and preserve their heritage and language. Also I really enjoy hearing the waterdrum as well.
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Re: Bone carving
« Reply #23 on: April 03, 2013, 09:29:13 pm »
Beautiful work.
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Re: Bone carving
« Reply #24 on: April 08, 2013, 03:41:34 pm »
Great art guys!  Thanks for sharing!
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Offline Primalartz

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Re: Bone carving
« Reply #25 on: April 08, 2013, 10:10:35 pm »
Much appreciated!!! I'm dabbling in jade now 
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Re: Bone carving
« Reply #26 on: April 08, 2013, 10:31:57 pm »
wow, excellent job, very nice...!
Jade is such a hard stone, but its also strong, the nice thing is one can really get detailed with it!
New Zealand Maori friends sent me back loaded with their green stone they harvest on the south island, I really haven't
carved anything with it yet :(
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Offline Primalartz

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Re: Bone carving
« Reply #27 on: April 08, 2013, 10:44:10 pm »
It is defiantly hard and dulled most of my diamond files. I wish I had some pounamu. This one was from a slab of British Columbia jade and is quite dark

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Re: Bone carving
« Reply #28 on: April 09, 2013, 12:30:19 am »
Man that is beautiful.
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Offline Thesquirrelslinger

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Re: Bone carving
« Reply #29 on: April 09, 2013, 08:28:04 pm »
Beautiful carvings.

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