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Oosik Dice (Walrus Baculum)
$287.00 – $2,870.00Oosik Dice (Walrus Baculum)
$287.00 – $2,870.00Oosik is a term used in Native Alaskan cultures to describe the bacula of many mammals that inhabit the frozen north. Chiefly among those are walruses, seals, sea lions, and polar bears. The oosik is a polished and sometimes carved baculum of these large northern carnivores. It’s one of the densest bones in a mammal’s skeleton and is used quite often in schrimsaw and tool making by the Inuits. These particular dice have been crafted from Walrus Oosik that has been resin stabilized, and are inlaid with Copper. A little over half the dice in this run came from walrus oosik, that was exhumed from an abandoned Inuit village.
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