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Inuit Soapstone

Soapstone Carving Information
Soapstone Carving Information
Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a metamorphic rock, a talc-schist. Soapstone has been used in India for centuries as a soft medium for carving, many of the Hoysala Empire temples were made from soapstone.
A soft, easily carved stone that polishes beautifully, soapstone is a favorite medium of [...]

Soapstone Inuit

A proud example of Christian values?

I found this interesting story. Starts off as:
Canada’s only major Arctic petroglyph site — a 1,500-year-old gallery of mysterious faces carved into a soapstone ridge on a tiny island off of Quebec’s northern coast — has been ransacked by vandals in what the region’s top archeologist suspects was a [...]