Bone Carving

"Stephen Myhre has drawn with great sensitivity on techniques and styles of carving from a wide range of Pacific cultures, but particularly Māori ... The book provides what the author calls a "skillbase" - a reliable set of practices and attitudes that can successfully produce bone carvings of great functional and aesthetic beauty ... Bone Carving describes and illustrates the materials, tools and techniques, explaining every stage from roughing out to final polishing and mounting ... The carver [the author] says, should respect the old traditions and be sensitive to the cultural significance of the forms being used."--BACK COVER.