Pendants

Ian Thorne is the owner/proprietor of The Bone Studio and Gallery. He has been carving for 10 years -- since learning in Chris Bone's workshop in Wellington. He's been teaching bone carving since running a course at the Owairaka Boy's Home in Auckland.

Ian works in a broad range of materials including beefbone, whalebone and teeth, petrified mammoth bone, dugong (a large marine mammal) bone, ebony, shell, horns and stone. His styles cross a broad range being influenced by Maori, Celtic, African and contempory design. All his work is of top quality finish and he specialises in carving to order with original designs.

Ian has created pendants (and one bracelet on display here) from almost the strangest of materials — from beefbone to petrified mammoth bone, from ebony to shell and horns. Here's proof that his answer to 'it's not "what can you carve?" but "what can't you carve?"' is "not much!"

Ian Thorne at his workbench

Bone Selection	Whalebone Selection (Muriwai rib)

Pounamu Toki Selection (jade)	Pounamu Selection (jade)

$123 "Bound Together" (spermwhale jawbone)	$456 "Mere Tohoraa" (whalebone)

$150 Ebony Koru (recycled ebony)	Sold "Celtic/Maori Bracelet"	$350 Double Koru (wapiti button)

$350 "Ivory Duality"	$250 "Mammoth Korus"	$150 "Dugong Weaving"

~$250 Serpentine Pekapeka	$75 Pounamu Drop, Hook & Toki (jade)

~$250 Hei Tiki (front & back)	"The Four Winds" (whalerib)

Manaia Pounamu (jade) w/Goldeye	~$250 "Family"	Raati onewa (Harpoon)

"Eight Eternities" Petrified Dugong Bone (Asian manatee)	Logo Hook 40,000 year old mammoth ivory	Ngaru Wairua 40,000 year old mammoth ivory

Dark Flounder	White Flounder

Tails	Maori Amulet

Matau Manaia	Rei Puta	Woven Flower Whale Tooth

Rei Puta (whale tooth)	Bone Weaver	Koropepe (antler button)

Whalebone Tiki with Paua eyes	Tiki with Jade eyes	Whale Cloud