According to the site that I bought my Baleen from recently, it is the harvesting of baleen that is watched carefully. What I bought came with a certificate that it was "antique", pre-ban stuff.
The walrus ivory was supposed to go only to native carvers, but the you could own it. I had a small picture carved on the base and it's legal for a whitie to own. The State Senator (1971 here folks - Alaska had just put in its 100,000th phone) was not a part of the trade. He had settled a genuine Alaskan homestead in 1946 and was a fabulous tale teller. EZ (Easy Man) Marchant did a fine business providing art and raw materials to his stable of artisans. As is common, people think because there are no walrus off their coast, the animal must be pushing towards extinction. Wasn't true in Alaska at all and probably still isn't. The natives still hunt them and use every bit rather than just hacking off a fin and dumping the carcass back into the water. Regina > > Like the 'feather trade' relating to the sale or trade of these > products on > the endangered species lists, I thought that only Native > Americans or First > Nation peoples were the only ones who have a legal right to > collect and use > them for cultural preservation. Was the State Senator involved in this > trading!!? > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
