Many years ago, an Inuit man I met on the British Columbia Coast gave me a Whale tooth. I stashed it away for years. Then I met a Mescalero Apache carver. He ended up with the Whale tooth. Years later, the carver came to my house and gave me this, as he called it " WhiteDove." It was made from the Whale ivory! I had this carving for years and then my daughter came along and wore it for a long time. The string started to break so I put it up somewhere??? My daughter and I were cleaning out three boxes of doll stuff that was stashed away a few years ago and low and behold, there was the