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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 4408684, member: 55&quot;]They are not NW Coast native, or any kind of Native American, if that was being suggested as a possibility.&nbsp; I&#039;d think bone; and can&#039;t help adding that there has been a cottage industry in Indonesia since the 1960s producing thousands of bone carvings, many with NW Coast or Alaskan themes, and also including designs originally from Ethiopia, the Maori, Egypt...if a hippy could put it on a necklace in 1965, you will find many of them today placed in a lovely framed collection, sometimes with a nice label such as &quot;Eskimo carvings.&quot;</p><p>The Indonesian industry has expertise in making them look old, and also uses a technique of &quot;tea-staining&quot; in which the new white carvings are placed in tea, briefly for a light brown, longer for dark.</p><p>And I mention that because a collection of fake Indonesian &quot;Eskimo&quot; carvings will contain a number of pieces which are all nearly identical, except that some are white, others light brown, and some of the same design in dark brown.&nbsp; Your collection exhibits that same kind of similarity, and I strongly suspect that these are products of the Indonesian bead industry.</p><p>Such items were originally sold as pendants to the beading trade; and you&#039;ll find them in beading-supply shops all over the world.&nbsp; One could google &quot;bone pendant beading&quot; or such - and if you find identical items in one of their online catalogs, you&#039;ll have your answer.&nbsp; A collection of &quot;Eskimo&quot; carvings, you&#039;ll see what I mean:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]373971[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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