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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vern, post: 29027, member: 347&quot;]I&#039;m going Otter.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What is it made of?&nbsp; Looks like fossilized bone to me, but my eyes are getting old.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I see Natives working on pieces like this all summer.&nbsp; The same carvers.&nbsp; They&#039;ll sit in the grass in the summer and work these with files and sandpaper all day long, which is all night too in Alaska.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The most valuable would of course be the ivory and fossilized mammoth tusk ones.&nbsp; This was likely done by an Aleut Native or Athabascan.&nbsp; I&#039;m sticking aleut from a place like King Salmon or Dutch Harbor.&nbsp; Exactly who or when gets a little more complicated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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