The Bone Studio and Gallery ... 
Pendants
Ian Thorne is the owner/proprietor of The Bone Studio and Gallery (Est. 1996) and has been carving for 38 years ... since learning in Chris Bone's workshop in Wellington. He has been teaching bone carving since running a course at the Owairaka Boy's Home in Auckland.
 Ian Thorne at his workbench |
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Ian works in a broad range of materials including beefbone, whalebone and teeth, petrified mammoth bone, dugong (a large marine mammal) bone, ebony, shell, horns and stone. His styles cross a broad range being influenced by Maori, Celtic, African and contempory design. All his work is of top quality finish and he specialises in carving to order with original designs.
Ian has created pendants (and one bracelet on display here) from almost the strangest of materials — from beefbone to petrified mammoth bone, from ebony to shell and horns. Here's proof that his answer to 'it's not "what can you carve?" but "what can't you carve?"' is "not much!"
$250  Raati Tohoraa |
$700  Woven Tooth (Sperm Whale - front & back) |
$250  "Deer Lily" (antler) |
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Ask  Bone Selection |
~$250  Whalebone Selection (Muriwai rib) |
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$450  "Woven Eternity" (whale rib) |
$350  "Eternity Twice" (goat horn) |
$300  "Growing Together" (whale rib) |
$320  "Eternal Variation" (whale rib) |
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~$250  Pounamu Toki Selection (jade) |
Ask  Pounamu Selection (jade) |
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$800  "Bound Together" (spermwhale jawbone) |
$400  Koropepe (serpentine) |
$300  "Mere Tohoraa" (whalebone) |
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$450  Koru (pounamu) |
$450  Hei Tiki (whale rib) |
$200  AntlerKoru_DeerAntlerButton (deer antler button) |
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$450  Ebony Koru (recycled ebony) |
$600  Celtic/Maori Bracelet |
$400  Double Koru (wapiti button) |
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$200  "Beaked Koru" (antler) |
~$250  "Gemini Hook" (whalebone) |
$240  "Celtic Heart" (whalebone) |
~$240  "Hei Matau" (whalebone) |
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$1400  "Ivory Duality" |
$800  "Mammoth Korus" |
$1400  "Dugong Weaving" |
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$600  Serpentine Pekapeka |
Ask  Pounamu Drop, Hook & Toki (jade) |
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$1500  Hei Tiki (front & back) |
$1400  "The Four Winds" (whale rib) |
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$750  Manaia Pounamu (jade) w/Goldeye |
$2000  "Family" |
$700  Raati (Warthog Tusk) |
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$1200  "Eight Eternities" Petrified Dugong Bone (Asian manatee) |
$500  Logo Hook 40,000 year old mammoth ivory |
$750  Ngaru Wairua 40,000 year old mammoth ivory |
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$400  Dark Flounder |
$400  White Flounder |
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$400  Tails |
$200  Maori Amulet |
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$350  Matau Manaia |
$500  Rei Puta |
$900  Woven Flower Whale Tooth |
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NFS  Rei Puta (whale tooth) |
NFS  Tiki with Jade eyes |
$250  Koropepe (antler button) |
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$800  Whalebone Tiki with Paua eyes |
$350  Bone Weaver |
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| Whalebone Carvings of Cloud (Based on Cloud Paintings by Michael Smither) |
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NFS  Cloud Dragon |
NFS  Whale Cloud |
NFS  In Praise of Fathers |
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