Thread: Horn

What. a. treasure.

This won't cramp your beer-hand:

Google 'UBC/MOA' That's the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology. Probably 500,000 objects in the collection.
On line, there's a gallery of approx 45,000 objects that you can sort through. A considerable number are made of bone and horn.
Search/sort for 'ladle' for example.

On the UBC campus in Vancouver, BC, there's good food and good parking and you really need 2 days to see it all.
Then the next time you go, 2 days for study. 2/3 of the collection is in the sets of drawers under the showcases.
They allowed me to bring a folding stool and sketching things.

I have used that site before I think to look at totem poles for inspiration made a couple of sticks based on the native art work .just love there carving. would love to vist but most of my time is spent visiting my daughters in the south of France and the Haig when I get the chance

I use of off cuts of horn to carve birds beaks and any area that is vulnerable on a hiking pole . used then on a bull topper to make its horns .its nice stuff to carve and shape but not clever for the lungs

Go searching in the major museums of your own big cities and countries. I don't doubt that you will find examples to study.
Do it now.
The Haida population sank from an estimated 100,000 to less than 10,000 with the smallpox epidemic. Whole villages and clans wiped out.
Lots of museums came to Haida Gwaii on "collecting trips" for bodies by the hundreds and boatloads of Haida posessions from the abandoned villages.
The Haida have made a 10 year repatriation project, asking the museums (100+) for the bones of their ancestors. Very successful.
Not long from now, they are ready to travel again, to recover their stolen posessions. I expect they will meet with equal resistance
but they will meet with equal success. So the collections to study will diminish.

They might leave things alone in the UBC/MOA. There's an absolutely exquisite horn ladle, hot oil-bent, from Mountain Goat horn.

We visited by rubber ducky the remains of the village off the southern tip of Hiada Gwaii back in 2013.
The native watchmen corral the tourists and look after the site.
Amazing Totem pole remains and log houses even after weathering for over 100 years.
The Smallbox sure made European conquest easier and Christianity destroyed their culture.
The tenacity of this Tribe to survive and their art is similar to the Maori of New Zealand.
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There's a native kid here that seems to have some talent for horn and bone art work.
I can add some hand tools and supplies as "fertilizer." See what he can do.
I'm certain that his people will give him lots of supportive ideas for traditional items.

Its pretty bad what has bee done in the past mostly in part to make money but to destroy whole communities what can you say.
hope you can encourage the kid like you say what's will happen who knows but any child who is given any kind of support usually benefits from it and should make society a better place
I vist museums on line often get info from them and google enables you to look at some exhibits
I am hoping to get some more work done with horn but it will have to take a back burner till I get caught up with request from people
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