This is a 10″ artifact fire starter walrus ivory knife. The handle was once an ancient tool used by Alaska natives to start fires, now repurposed as a knife handle. This knife has a Damascus steel blade.

Alaskan knife maker, Bob Merry, designs and makes the knives here in Anchorage. Bob and his family have been carving and making knives in Alaska for over 30 years. Each year he spends a month or more in the Arctic wilderness collecting naturally shed antler for his knife handles and carvings. He gets mammoth bone from miners, and artifacts and other materials from hunters that find them while in the back country.