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Cthulhu Cultist Obsidian Knife and Ivory Talisman

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Cthulhu Cultist Obsidian Knife, sheath, and possible Ithaqua/Windwalker amulet obtained during Albert Arnold Mill’s Alaskan Expedition of 1935. Items are of indeterminate age, made from locally obtained materials; obsidian, walrus ivory, caribou, and Snowshoe hare. Both items stylistically bear some similarity to artwork of indigenous peoples of the Northwestern part of North America, and are suggestive of their Sino-Siberian ancestry.

Notes from Mill’s diary from June through August 1935 describe an expedition to the interior of Northern Alaska Mill had made after conversations with Stephen Jones, who was a fellow resident of London, a dilettante and sometime collector and seller of macabre artworks and artifacts from whom Mill had obtained a number of artifacts.

Dagger and talisman are resin, knife sheath is leather and fur hide.

Copies of this sculpture are available for $65  plus shipping.  Contact me at zombiequadrille@hotmail.com for details.

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Great set!  The obsidian is excellent, black resin I presume?  The shape of the chips and the level of gloss has me wondering if it was real before I read your materials.