Here’s where you can see a 100-year-old, 2-meter narwhal tusk in Mass.
A narwhal tusk that is nearly seven feet long is extremely rare. Here's where you can see it in Massachusetts.
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Mammoth tusk tool may have been used to make ropes 37,000 years ago
A 37,000-year-old piece of mammoth ivory with four carved holes found in a cave in Germany was a tool for making ropes, researchers have concluded, not an artwork as previously thought. Read more ...
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Ivory Worship
Raw tusks are not Bernales’s only medium—the heads of some of his saints began as billiard balls. Filipinos generally display two types of ivory santos: either solid carvings or images whose ...
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Tusk or Bone? An Example of Ivory Substitute in the Wildlife Trade
2, 2011 Tusk or Bone? An Example of Ivory Substi... Tusk or Bone? An Example of Ivory Substitute in the Wildlife Trade This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Bone carvings (and ...
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The Art and Legacy of Asian ivory and bone Carvings
The art of ivory and bone carving in Asia, particularly in India and the Philippines, has a rich history influenced by the ...
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Elephant and walrus tusk ivory smuggler sentenced
The investigation began in 2017 when customs officers at Heathrow Airport intercepted a package that he declared to be a gift worth £15, when in fact it was a carved ivory figure which had been ...
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'Ivory cost': Tamil Nadu foresters probe sources of elephant tusks – Veerappan’s stash, dead tuskers, or private collectors?
Despite the strict vigilance, elephant tusks are being illegally removed ... there is a demand only for intricately carved artefacts made of ivory, not for raw ivory," says H V Girish, former ...