
Fossil Walrus Beach Washed Ivory (50)
Description
Fossil Walrus Beached Washed Ivory Tusk, measuring approximately 2" x 1 1/8" at the base 2" at the center and 13.5” long. Beautiful dark taupe color on the outside inner core revealed on the ends. Tape marks the hollow which is approx. 2 3/4 depth. Perfect for knife handles, pens, jewelry, inlays, carvings or display. This tusk and #12 are a pr.
Excavated 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.
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