Viktor Dordzhiev, Bone Carving: Statues, Figures and Chests

• Main Authors: Ubushieva, Bamba, Kornyakova, Saglara, Babaev, Andrei
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: Russian
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: bone carving; Zaya Pandita; chest; instruments; works; Baldwin; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.17866; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270921

In the beginning when Viktor was learning carving skills, he mainly used cow or pig bones. In high school he used a mammoth tusk for his carvings. His first works made from a mammoth tusk are called ‘the Kalmyk wrestling’ and ‘the Mother’s Song’ (1997). Another interesting bone that he used for his...