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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 85890, member: 55&quot;]<i>So the items in the auction are carved on cow bone rather than antlers and not done in the time period mentioned in the listing?</i></p><p><br /></p><p>That would be my opinion.&nbsp;&nbsp; Indonesian water buffalo, called cow by the locals. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; It is harder to ID small bone items from photos than say, large wood masks.&nbsp;&nbsp; But I have monitored the sale of around 300 of these lance-shaped items on ebay, over the last 10 years, from maybe 50 sellers; the lances/gaming pieces/fetishes, whatever you call them are commonly found in framed collections which also contain items direct from the import catalogs, many based on Egyptian, East Indian, Maori originals.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Eskimo artifacts are typically fragmentary; and what are the chances that these 13 have remained together over centuries?</p><p>Or maybe the Ethiopians have been copying Eskimo pendants?&nbsp; Or the Eskimos of centuries ago copied the designs of contemporary Ethiopians, via time-travel? </p><p><br /></p><p>I was alerted to this many years ago at an auction while looking at a frame of these.....a kind bystander said to me &quot;You know these are fakes, right?&nbsp; I&#039;m a beader, and they are found in all the bead-importers catalogs.&quot;&nbsp; Sure enough, they are.&nbsp;&nbsp; But if you don&#039;t know that to start with, how would you know to check the hohbead catalog, or to google Ethiopian pendants?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the search results for Ethiopian bone pendants:</p><p><a href="http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ethiopian+bone+pendant&amp;id=7D7879E98B2FF7B627440431420B6CAB674B1092&amp;FORM=IQFRBA" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ethiopian+bone+pendant&amp;id=7D7879E98B2FF7B627440431420B6CAB674B1092&amp;FORM=IQFRBA" rel="nofollow">http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ethiopian+bone+pendant&amp;id=7D7879E98B2FF7B627440431420B6CAB674B1092&amp;FORM=IQFRBA</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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