An curved arrow pointing right. Jukkit Suksawat a Thai artist who has been creating traditional mother-of-pearl inlay for the past 30 years. He is determined to keep this 14th-century tradition ...

Interestingly, less than a mile from where the carving was found, there is a Thai Buddhist monastery, or Wat, inhabited by a group of artistically inclined monks, according to the Smithsonian.