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Mammoth Tooth Carving by Chuck Leake shaped bowls birch burlFor the past 29 years, Chuck has made his living carving ancient ivory and bone. He first hitchhiked to Alaska in 1971 at the age of 17. Around that time, he developed an interest in sculpture while working in bronze foundries in his hometown of Prescott, Arizona. He began carving old walrus ivory, and by the late 1980s, he was also buying, selling, and carving mammoth tusks and ivory. Today, Chuck works with fossil whale bone, mammoth ivory, and