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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 87849, member: 301&quot;]On a lesser note.....</p><p>One day a guy waltzes into my Gallery with a juvenile Narwhal tusk , all of 30 inches that was shipped from the north and went unclaimed at a small nearby airport.</p><p>I bought it on the spot for $300.</p><p>It sat for many years behind my desk &amp; I used it for show &amp; tell with clients and school classes.</p><p>I couldn&#039;t keep my hands off it and one day it cracked badly at the point were the tusk protrudes from the creatures head.</p><p><br /></p><p>Long story short , I gifted the whole thing to a Mi&#039;kmah artist friend of mine, knowing he would give item the respect it deserved by using it in his one of a kind dream catchers , for which he had become famous .</p><p><br /></p><p>Months passed and he called me to come to the Mohawk reserve across the river where he had his home &amp; atelier.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once there he showed me a wonderful artwork that included the major part of the tusk......&amp; I couldn&#039;t have been happier !</p><p><br /></p><p>Then he sat me down, opened a wrapped up deer hide &amp; to my delight thanked me and presented me with this.......</p><p><br /></p><p>A hand hammered copper blade, with a Labradorite pommel&nbsp; !!!</p><p><br /></p><p>&amp; the remains of the tusk....as the handle ! [ATTACH=full]22349[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]22350[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]22351[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]22352[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]22353[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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