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BluesKajHey all12:16
OldportHey\18:16
OldportAnybody here ?18:16
Oldportanybody here from the arctic?18:17
sadsunthe netherlands, sorry18:19
sadsunbut it's cold here too18:19
sadsundo u need help, Oldport ?18:21
Oldporthahah18:21
OldportNot in ubuntu :)18:22
sadsunwhere in then?18:22
OldportJust need some help in identifying some objects from the arctic18:25
Oldportthought someone might be from arctic area18:25
sadsuno_O objects?18:25
Oldportcostumes18:25
Oldportand figurines.18:26
sadsunfrom native american tribes or something?18:26
Oldportyep18:26
* genii-around makes more coffee and thinks about carving a narwhal tusk18:27
sadsuncool :)18:27
Oldportgenii has a 6th sense18:27
Oldportone of the item is indeed somekind of carved tusk18:27
* sadsun is curious now18:28
Oldporthttp://img803.imageshack.us/img803/3654/vs19704573a.jpg18:28
Oldportheres one of the things18:28
Oldportits a tusk18:28
sadsunnice18:28
Oldportor some kind of bone18:28
Oldportits shaped like a wahle18:28
Oldportim guessing its a whalebone18:28
Oldporti knwo they used to make whalebone artifacts18:29
genii-aroundThats bone, yes18:29
sadsunshould photograph it together with a size reference18:29
sadsunlike a penny or something18:29
Oldporti get it18:30
genii-aroundMy friend who was from Arctic Bay used to do a lot of stuff like this, I helped a bit. He would sell stuff to the local art stores, etc.18:30
OldportHxWxD: 1.6 x 1.1. x 4.6 cm18:30
OldportThis one is quite old genii18:31
OldportMy grandfather visited those areas in the 1920s18:31
Oldport1930s18:31
Oldportsomething around that period18:31
Oldportand this particular one looks a lot older than most the other stuff i have18:31
sadsunis it just art or does it also have some function, like a button?18:32
genii-aroundThe tail of the whale is broken off, unfortunately :( But it does look interesting18:32
Oldporthe was an archaeologist by profession18:32
Oldportby i dont know anything about this thing18:32
Oldportdidnt leave any references18:32
Oldportbut*18:33
Oldporthttp://img207.imageshack.us/img207/4521/vs6926933.jpg18:34
Oldportheres another weird thing18:34
Oldporti think its some kind of goggles18:34
Oldportvery weird stuff18:34
sadsunit's beautiful18:35
genii-aroundThat second one is definitely made of whalebone, I can tell by the grain ( it is fairly porous stuff)18:35
genii-aroundLooks a variation on west coast thunderbird18:36
Oldportwhat are those18:37
OldportI looked it up.18:38
genii-aroundMight also be snow goggles18:39
OldportThats what i thought18:39
Oldportsome kind of goggles.18:39
genii-around( although I don't see any through-holes)18:39
Oldportits definite shaped and sized like goggles18:39
Oldportheres a bunch of more weird things18:39
Oldporthttp://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4941/vs1970456466.jpg18:40
sadsunI think it functions like a baseball cap18:40
OldportI think these are just decorations18:40
Oldporti think the middle and the right one are a lot older18:40
Oldporthence the decoloration18:41
Oldportsome kind of ornaments perhaps18:42
genii-aroundThe goggle-things can also be for sleeping... it's hard to sleep sometimes when the sun is shining 24/7 ...18:43
genii-aroundOf the three things there, hard to tell what the first is made from but looks like bone. The next two are ivory18:45
Oldportare you from the arctic area genii?18:45
Oldportthat does make a lot of sense.18:45
genii-aroundNo. But my friend had me up there to visit a couple times, we would buy raw materials like soapstone, whalebone, etc to bring back for his carvings.18:46
genii-aroundHe was half Inuit half Welsh ( his dad went up there as a missionary, married a native girl )18:47
Oldportcool18:47
OldportI have some inuit costumes18:47
genii-aroundhttp://www.spiritwrestler.com/catalog/index.php?artists_id=397 is him18:47
Oldportvery cool18:48
Oldportwell18:48
Oldportnot definitely inuit18:48
Oldportbut some kind of indian items18:49
Oldporthttp://img338.imageshack.us/img338/139/tr165542011b.jpg18:49
Oldportlook at this18:50
Oldportits quite something18:50
Oldporti dont think theres a single bead missing on it18:51
genii-aroundLooks like Ojibwe/Chippewa18:51
Oldportlooks a bit Iroquois18:53
genii-aroundhttp://angelaswedberg.blogspot.com/2010/07/ca-1860s-plateau-bag-replica.html  shows the style I was thinking of18:54
genii-aroundThe shape is unusual, yes18:55
genii-aroundWork, afk18:56
Oldport:)18:56
Oldportlater18:56
sadsunare you planning to sell them or something?18:57
Oldportno18:57
Oldportunless someone offers me a ridiculous bundle of cash18:58
Oldporti dont know if its worth anything18:58
Oldportbut i think its unique18:58
Oldportand i know its gotta be old18:58
Oldportits at least 70-80 since he got it18:59
Oldportand he kept it very well so it looks a lot older18:59
sadsunmaybe carbon date them?18:59
Oldportlol18:59
Oldportwhat would that help?18:59
Oldportthe materials are million years old19:00
Oldportbillion19:00
Oldportat best it could tell me what materials they are19:00
Oldportand when they were exposed to certain conditions19:00
sadsuntrue19:00
Oldportalso theres probably a lot easier way to tell what materials its made off than doing spectrographic imaging19:02
Oldportx-ray19:02
Oldportor all that stuff19:02
Oldportthere are simpler ways to figure out the materials19:03
Oldportbut an expert could probably tell straight off19:04
sadsuncarbon dating tells the age of the material... (if it has any carbon in it)19:05
Oldportspectographic imaging could tell the content of the materials19:06
sadsunif it is bone, then it should contain carbon19:06
Oldportxray19:06
Oldportneutroniic microscope could also determine19:06
Oldportbut an expert could probably tell with a simple microscope19:07
sadsuntrue19:07
sadsun+ with carbon dating u have to take a piece of the material and grind it to powder :(19:07
Oldportalso the material, as important as they may be, dont tell the entire story19:07
Oldportthe general design and the techniques used is probably the only way to determine culture of origin19:08
Oldportmachines cant do that yet19:14
Oldportmaybe they can19:14
sadsundoubt it :)19:20
dscasselThey didn't say.  Just "limited time"20:00
dscasselbah, wrong window20:00
dscasselHi all. :D20:01
genii-aroundHi dscassel !20:01

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