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Very beautiful works of art gives us a bone carving. This has long been known, but not very widely used in folk arts and crafts material, but, nevertheless, in a separate form of artistic creativity. The peoples of the Far North were made of her harpoons to hunt marine animals, knives, spears, amulets. Such objects found by archaeologists on the coast ofChukotka, refer to the beginning of our era. 

Excavations cultural layers of X-XII centuries. in Novgorod the Great proved the existence of the population of ancient cities of products made by local craftsmen. Among the findings - ornamental badges, buckles clothing, combs, chess pieces, unique complete staffs. Later the manufacture of various products have begun to engage in Kholmogory Arkhangelsk region and Tobolsk. These centers have turned into folk arts and crafts of bone carving.

Already in the middle of XX century. began to form on the production of artistic treatment of the material in the suburbanKhotkovo, in Yakutsk, Magadan.

Development of handicrafts carved bone and will determine today the conditions of its receipt. In Chukotka, extraction and processing of bone - a walrus tusks - an organic part of life sea mammal hunting. In Siberia, the tusks of a mammoth were found and are still in the permafrost of the tundra. These types of material are becoming increasingly rare and are used for the manufacture of unique products and highly artistic work done in small batches.

For mass production use simple, affordable material. However, the masters of the past and modern bone carver has repeatedly argued that with him can achieve high artistic results. Various kinds of raw materials used for artistic works, have their peculiarities, which must be taken into account when designing an object and its decorative treatment. The hardness of it allows subtle openwork carving on bone, but it makes remember the fragility of such a figure.

White elephant tusks requires precise elaboration of relief that it is well played by light and shadow. On the bright little yellow surface of the ivory engraved picture or other type of carving on bone is necessary to emphasize the color, make it clear to «read». Ivory or mammoth tusk, with a coherent mass that enables virtually any of his sculptural forms. Canine walrus with internal cellular structure limits the opportunity

Its limitations because of the small size and the internal cavity dictates the sperm whale tooth. All these noble material gain after polishing a good shine and reveal the delicate structure. In contrast, the simple raw materials requires additional processing after the process of carving on bone. Its degreasing, bleaching, and the tubular form cut to a plate or the relevant part of the future product.