{"product_id":"beach-tumbled-polished-fossil-walrus-pieces-46","title":"Beach Tumbled Fossil Walrus Pieces Lot 46 - Sold 5.21.26","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeach Tumbled  Fossil Walrus Ivory pieces  pieces from the beach of Punuk Island about 100 miles off the coast of Siberia. Can be sanded and polished glassy smooth for display, handling or scrimshaw. Sizes range from 2 1\/2\" - 3 1\/2\" lengths. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExcavated on St. Lawrence Island by Eskimo people known as Siberian Yupik. For over 5,000 years the Yupiks had villages along the Bering Sea and fashioned sled runners, net weights, chopping tools and other utensils out of readily available ivory. That ivory became hidden from the world for centuries, when it was discarded in the village middens (dumps) along with tusks and bones of walrus, whales and seals. Only now is that ancient ivory being unearthed, excavated by the descendants of the primitive Yupiks that worked it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boone Trading Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":4489121202217,"sku":"BFW-46","price":155.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1381\/4973\/files\/IMG_0625.jpg?v=1778704797","url":"https:\/\/www.boonetrading.com\/products\/beach-tumbled-polished-fossil-walrus-pieces-46","provider":"Boone Trading Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}