The Specimens

Carved skulls that were never an animal.

Cow, ram, and whatever turns up next. Cut over every surface, bound at the joins, numbered once.

The collection

Each one carved to its own pattern. Numbered, and retired when the run ends.

Mandala Longhorn, Carved Cow Skull

Every surface of it is carved, and not one part of it was ever an animal. The rope wrap is where the joins are, and we would rather tell you than have you wonder.

$295.00

SPECIMEN 002

Norse Ram, Carved Ram Skull

Knotwork cut into every plane of a ram skull that never carried a ram. Horns included. Animal not.

$265.00

SPECIMEN 003

Mandala Longhorn, Silver and Gold

The same skull in metal, and it took two goes. Gold everywhere buried the carving. Silver body with gold horns gave it back.

$345.00

SPECIMEN 004

Bison Skull, Blank

Clean bone, ridged horn, and not one part of it was ever an animal. The skull without the beetles, the permits or the smell.

$135.00

Muninn, Carved Raven Skull

Odin sent out two. He feared more for Muninn. This is the one that did not come home, with the knotwork cut into the bone and washed by hand.

$159.00

Second Plumage, Feathered Hawk Skull

It remembers what it used to wear. Feathers carved over the bone, stopping clean at the eye, and a row of teeth no hawk ever had.

$139.00

Hawk Skull, Blank

A bird of prey that never was. Everything about it is right except the row of teeth along the jaw, and we left those in on purpose.

$79.00

Dry Season, Carved Bison Skull

The ground it came out of was cracked long before it was. Nothing on it is broken, and every plate is exactly where we put it.

$245.00

None of these is bone. Nothing died for them, nothing cleared quarantine, and none of them smells of anything. They are sculpted from scratch, made here, and finished by hand, which is why no two come out quite the same.

Told first when a new one is cut.

One email when a specimen lands. Nothing in between.

One email when something turns up. Nothing else, ever.