The Inuits carve bone, animal tooth and ivory.
Young artists explore carving a soft bar of soap into the shape of an animal.
The Inuit live in and near the Arctic, from the northeastern tip of Russia, across Alaska and northern Canada, to Greenland. In Canada they are Inuit, Yupik in Alaska and Yuit in Siberia. Because they must kill animals for food, the Inuit believe animal spirits may send them bad luck. To guard against this, they spend months carving the likenesses of the animals they kill as lucky charms and protection. Materials large bar of bath soap, such as Ivory pencil carving tool, such as kitchen knife, nail towel Process Use a pencil to draw the outline of an animal on the side of the bar of soap.