"Russia, Alaska, and Canada have living ivory producing species (Walrus) and along with the presence of other global ivory producing species such as  Elephants, Warthog and Hippopotamus whom all may benefit to a lessor impact of their depleting populations by supplying the only legal alternative ivory available in the world, 'Woolly Mammoth' ivory can seriously impact this supply and demand that exist on a global scale, should all of the governments endorse the acquisition of Mammoth ivory as a valid replacement, then we may realize the modern living ivory producing species will not be illegally poached at least to the extent they currently are.  Alaska and Canada have implemented more restrictions on this available ancient ivory with disregard to this replacement alternative as with the freedoms of people whom enjoy this, the "Most Significant Sculpture and Jewelry Medium in the World."

"Left handed mature 'Bull Woolly Mammoth' tusk, out from an eroded Ice Age deposit, somewhere around 20,000 years ancient. Siberia produces a great deal of wondrous specimens such as this flawless tusk, as their main market is China whom maintains their perhaps growing ivory tradition. Mammoth tusks are ivory and in no way petrified as most fossils are, but instead frozen for the entire time until they are exposed by summer  temperatures. In a very real way, there are enough of these ivory tusks, both broken and complete, mostly from Russia, Alaska and western Canada to impact modern ivory producing species as a valid and legal replacement. It is very important to note, that all of these ancient tusk require curing, slowly as they are all saturated with water....Ice Age water, and a high humid condition in such regions as my studio in Bali insures that they cure properly and without damage."

"Siberian Mammoth hunters are active and in their region of the Arctic every summer season. It is a cold and relatively dangerous venture but offers opportunity to the residents of Siberia to prosper in the 'Worlds Most Significant Sculpture Medium." 'On the eastern shoreline of the shallow Bering and Chukchi Seas, I also venture in summer along the same land mass of Alaska divided only by a different government and country, both camping and dealing with an aggressive Arctic weather enveloping these vast wildernesses."

"The village of 'Kivilina' nestled along the beaches of the Chukchi Sea, offers ancient dwellings of one of the Arctic's most magical and Shamanistic groups in prehistory. Extinct frozen house sites below ground, remnants of the Ice Age also in the lagoon and off shore as   Mammoths and all Ice Age fossils  offered up by storms and deposited in sand, often lost and reclaimed by the sea."

"Endless miles of Ice Age remnants eroding from thawed permafrost into the sea. The greedy tides and storms with fingers disguised as waves as they quickly claim a Mammoth tusk or bone almost as rapidly as they fall from the muddy banks.  My boat waits on the shore with all of my requirements as I constantly scan with binoculars for any sign of bear. Purposefully I obtain a black finished boat to appear as natural to the surroundings as possible and guard it as if it were my link to survival in this most remote Arctic region. From Siberia to Canadian's Mackenzie River harbors the niche of the Ice Age, always willing to give up it's bounty of treasures to artists, collectors and scientists world wide."

"They are here still, physically and within it's soul, now frozen within the preserved Ice Age, are thousands of years and millions of stories undisclosed.  Of times when Woolly Mammoth trumpeted in a land now changed forever. Tracks in the mud now covered and trails grown over or trampled by modern Caribou.  Camps of our ancestors overgrown and lost beneath deposited sedges and lichen layered over a time replaced with seemingly endless cycles around the sun. Ivory exposed to the hunters of the tundra, to those surrounded by hordes of mosquitoes, and storms racing out of Siberia. Cold camps, as tents flattened by offshore winds over 45 mph, sometimes for days.  I walk anyway on the beaches as my eyes water from the chill, and look into the ebb-tides and frozen beaches as I go in no different manner as the hunters of the clan of the Mammoth...relentless."

"Recycled slate bladed dagger, (recycled because in a previous use, due to the drilled hole, this blade might have been an ulu knife with a different shape and usage. Most likely this ulu had been resharpened extensively and no longer usable as it was made too short.  It had then been reworked for a pointed dagger blade supported by a Mammoth ivory handle with an image of a fantastic beast with pointed ears that perhaps is actually a 'wolverine' or and 'ermine.' The back of the knife is a motif of a skeletal motif suggesting an Amulet by purpose typically a spiritual link by the owner."