Housewares
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Sloping Wall Mount (Euro Mount) for Dall Ram's Skull and Horns. Japanese cherry slab, black spruce curl, maple. 25" h x 20" w x 15" d; 10/2007.
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Alaskan Birch Mug with Wall Mount. Removable through-peg allows mug to hinge on wall, acting as a pencil holder. All wood; Alaskan birch; 9" h x 5" w x 6" d; 11/2007.
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Tool Tote with Rustic Handle. Inverted frustrum shape. Naturally-curved spruce handle held in place with tusk tenons. Carved Celtic knotwork on ends. Pine and Alaskan white spruce; 30" l x 9" h x 9" w; 11/2007.
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Rustic Wall-Mounted Lamp and Shade. Shade is paper thin white spruce. Spruce branch arm rotates on black spruce burl; attached to birch wall plate. Wired for electric lightbulb. Alaskan birch, black and white spruce, pine, electrical hardware; 33" l x 10" h x 9" w; 12/2007. |
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Alaskan Askur (Icelandic lidded porridge bowl; theirs is coopered) hollowed from one-piece black spruce burl with integral branch handles. Lid is hinged and pinned to handle; little burl added as lid pull. Larch; black and white spruce; 10" l x 7" w x 9" h; 5/2006.
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Carved shelf with Norsk traditional clotheshooks from branches. Alaskan birch; alder aspen; white spruce; 12" h x 20" w x 10" d; 6/2007.
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Carved spruce boughs and cones for mirror frame. White spruce, 24" h x 20" w x ¾" t; 3/2007.
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Acanthus mirror frame done with Pietro Vinotti in Walloon Lake, MI. Basswood, 23" l x 10" w x 1" d, 1994.
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Alaskan interpretation of an Icelandic lidded porridge bowl or askur. The Icelandic version is a coopered bowl; mine is a white spruce burl. Also chip-carved. White spruce burl, white spruce, maple; 10" l x 6.5" w x 7 " h (4" deep inside); 2005. (Shown both open and closed.)
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Traditional Norwegian clothes' hooks (from branches) in a carved wall rack. White pine, black spruce, alder, willow and paper birch, 48"l x 10" w x 5" d, 2004.
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Wood drinking cup (after Norwegian hunter's cup) for Liz Hofer. Paper birch, 6" h x 5" w x 4.5" d, 2000.
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Drakenstil knifeblock. Ash, 9" h x 6" w x 4" d, 2000.
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Ladle with Yupik-inspired 'atlatl' or spear thrower handle. Paper birch, 15" l x 2.5" w x 1.5" d, 1997.
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Norwegian acanthus-style paper towel holder done with Anders Gjorslie at the Hjereleids Vidaregaende Skole in Dovre, Norway. Pine, 14" l x 10" w x 5" d, 1999.
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Chip-carved picture frame molding for Black Rapids Roadhouse. Pine; 36" l x 12" h x 3/4'" t; 2006.
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Ram's head coat hook (after Russian design from Audun Endestad). Larch, 9" l x 5" w x 5" d, 1998.
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Sauna ladle with ram's head. White spruce and baleen, 11" l x 2.5" w x 3" d, 1998.
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Chip-carved soap dish. White spruce; 6" l x 4" w x 1.5" d; 2006.
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Hearthside Bakery toothpick holder with chip-carved logo. Spruce burl; 3" dia; 2005.
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Tree man bookend. White spruce, 8" h x 6" w x 3" d, 1990.
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Yoga block with Celtic knot. White spruce, 9" l x 6" w x 4" h, 1998.
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