Handmade Portraits: The Bone Carver

Sylvester Ayek (http://sylvesterayek.etsy.com) continues to uphold the traditions of his Iñupiat elders: hunting, foraging, and the craft of carving walrus ivory and wood. Read the Etsy blog post: http://etsy.me/thebonecarver. All Etsy videos are created under the Creative Commons license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/). Please feel free to share!

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