"On gravel, regular tent stakes do not stay in place during any storm, and it is not nice to get up in the night (which is still day time in the Arctic summer) and try to tie down anything including the tent sides.  So I use Mammoth tusks that I discover along the way and does a great job, there just isn't any wood, rocks or anything to tie to...when the winds blow."

"Sometimes a storm from the north (Siberia) will come through and make things wet and the wind does blow.  I just could not keep my feeble tent stakes to stay in place with all the wind,  so I grabbed one Mammoth tusk section and tied it to the rain tarp, and read a good book...and took a nap" 

"The 'headwaters' of the Buckland River, just in from of a non-disclosed 'Gold Mine' potential (placer deposits identical to the deposits in Candle mine) that the village keeps secret from inquirers, I gained ground as my only interests were Mammoth fossils. This region has thousands of years of native Inuit occupation, and their indications are along the river banks...abundantly."  "It is not a broken log in the gravel bar, but a section of Woolly Mammoth Tusk, for my studio"  "Even though it is perhaps 20,000 years in age, it is still quality...ivory."

"1980 Buckland village arriving upriver approximately 30 miles from 'Elephant Point' to visit and resupply.  I met just wonderful friends there and journeyed even further south up river another 20 miles.  There I discovered ancient Woolly Mammoth tusks and fragments along with a very rich placer gold gravels parallel to the mine called Candle, a few miles to the west.  I saw my first wild Muskox as this bull raced past me in a near panic tearing up tundra and flinging sod many feet in the air.  An ancient village eroding out from the river dumping artifacts along the gravel bank, a complete dark brown native skull lay wedged between clumps of sod, and a set of 'jet' labrets nearby.  An Arctic fox in molt, looks on from a few feet away, and ravens following the nestling geese...upriver."

"The majority of my works are relatively small in size.  Pendant 'amulet' purpose for the majority of my Woolly Mammoth Ivory that is of a smaller category.  This particular pendant is a dancing Inuit, designed for the Alaskan market.  I used to sell almost everything I produced to the Alaskan market but now I remain close to my studio and venture out less.  I reside in Ubud, Bali, and market now from my home here."

It is my desire to see you in such a place as this.  You whom read this.  To share in absolute wilderness, alone and not for a short time.  To get to know your new friend, you.  This is the way of us, and those whom look to the great distance and do so alone, to drive on in snow that gets you there and...back.  This bull Mammoth tusk as it lay in the stream bed of the Ikpikpuk river on the North Slope of Alaska...