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</div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Art, tools, and goods carved from bone</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lilleberge_Plaque_(BM).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Lilleberge_Plaque_%28BM%29.JPG/220px-Lilleberge_Plaque_%28BM%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Lilleberge_Plaque_%28BM%29.JPG/330px-Lilleberge_Plaque_%28BM%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Lilleberge_Plaque_%28BM%29.JPG/440px-Lilleberge_Plaque_%28BM%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Viking <a href="/wiki/Whalebone" class="mw-redirect" title="Whalebone">whalebone</a> plaque from <a href="/wiki/Lilleberge_Viking_Burial" title="Lilleberge Viking Burial">Lilleberge</a>, Norway, 9th-century.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alaska_Grasendes_Karibu_c1910_Linden-Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Alaska_Grasendes_Karibu_c1910_Linden-Museum.jpg/220px-Alaska_Grasendes_Karibu_c1910_Linden-Museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="121" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Alaska_Grasendes_Karibu_c1910_Linden-Museum.jpg/330px-Alaska_Grasendes_Karibu_c1910_Linden-Museum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Alaska_Grasendes_Karibu_c1910_Linden-Museum.jpg/440px-Alaska_Grasendes_Karibu_c1910_Linden-Museum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1143" data-file-height="628" /></a><figcaption>Grazing caribou made in Alaska <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1910 - <a href="/wiki/Linden_Museum" title="Linden Museum">Linden Museum</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b>Bone carving</b> is creating <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tools" class="mw-redirect" title="Tools">tools</a>, and other goods by carving <a href="/wiki/Bone" title="Bone">animal bones</a>, <a 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It can result in the ornamentation of a bone by <a href="/wiki/Engraving" title="Engraving">engraving</a>, painting or another technique, or the creation of a distinct formed object. Bone carving has been practiced by a variety of world cultures, sometimes as a cheaper, and recently a legal, substitute for <a href="/wiki/Ivory_carving" title="Ivory carving">ivory carving</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a material it is inferior to ivory in terms of hardness, and so the fine detail that is possible, and lacks the "lustrous" surface of ivory. The interior of bones are softer and even less capable of a fine finish, so most uses are as thin plaques, rather than sculpture in the round.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But it must always have been much easier to obtain in regions without populations of elephants, <a href="/wiki/Walrus" title="Walrus">walrus</a> or other sources of ivory. </p><p>It was important in <a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_art" title="Prehistoric art">prehistoric art</a>, with notable figures like the <i><a href="/wiki/Swimming_Reindeer" title="Swimming Reindeer">Swimming Reindeer</a></i>, made of antler, and many of the <a href="/wiki/Venus_figurines" class="mw-redirect" title="Venus figurines">Venus figurines</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_art" title="Anglo-Saxon art">Anglo-Saxon</a> <a href="/wiki/Franks_Casket" title="Franks Casket">Franks Casket</a> is a whale bone casket imitating earlier ivory ones.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Medieval bone caskets were made by the <a href="/wiki/Embriachi_workshop" title="Embriachi workshop">Embriachi workshop</a> of north Italy (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1375</span>–1425) and others, mostly using rows of thin plaques carved in relief.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Roman_Bone_Carving.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Roman_Bone_Carving.jpg/220px-Roman_Bone_Carving.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Roman_Bone_Carving.jpg/330px-Roman_Bone_Carving.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Roman_Bone_Carving.jpg/440px-Roman_Bone_Carving.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3076" data-file-height="3030" /></a><figcaption>A face carved on a piece of curved bone. The face is framed by hair and part of a winged head-dress remains. <a href="/wiki/Coptic_art" title="Coptic art">Coptic</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Flat bones were also used by artists and craftsmen to try out their designs, especially by metalworkers. 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