Brown Pelican and Morning Doves Scrimshaw

Each of these is no larger than 2" x2": very small. Hand stippling of two Audobon plates done on mammoth ivory.

Ivory note: Wooly mammoth ivory can be purchased at Natural History museums. It comes from a species that was hunted to extinction 20,000 years ago by indigenous people. This ivory was partially fossilized, the funds went to support history preservation and long before that, it fed your ancestors. To protest this is to protest education and humans before humans became industrialized. Please don't bother complaining that ivory kills. I agree that it does, but please examine this case before condemning it.

The stippling took a month to do, after which I went blind for a week and had to wear glasses for two years.