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<p>[QUOTE="blooey, post: 3145310, member: 12007"]Argillite? some soft variety I'm not familiar with I suppose - not at all like the Haida Gwaii stuff, is it? Looks like regular old soapstone to me, but I guess that's just my generic name for most Inuit carvings that aren't specifically identified other than by colour, e.g. black stone/green stone etc..</p><p>The electric chatter-marks from the engraving pencil present in the BI INUIT engraving was the reason I suggested only the syllabics were by the artist - which were as per usual practice, just scratched in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="blooey, post: 3145310, member: 12007"]Argillite? some soft variety I'm not familiar with I suppose - not at all like the Haida Gwaii stuff, is it? Looks like regular old soapstone to me, but I guess that's just my generic name for most Inuit carvings that aren't specifically identified other than by colour, e.g. black stone/green stone etc.. The electric chatter-marks from the engraving pencil present in the BI INUIT engraving was the reason I suggested only the syllabics were by the artist - which were as per usual practice, just scratched in.[/QUOTE]
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