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Ivory has been valued since ancient times in art or manufacturing for making a range of items from ivory carvings to false teeth, piano keys, fans, and dominoes. [9] Elephant ivory is the most important source, but ivory from mammoth, walrus, hippopotamus, sperm whale, orca, narwhal and warthog are used as well.
Ivory from Africa was widely sought after outside the continent by the 14th century due in part to the poorer quality of Asian ivory. [31] While Asian ivory is brittle, more difficult to polish, and tends to yellow with exposure to air, African ivory often comes in larger pieces, a more sought after cream colour, and is easier to carve. Ivory ...
The grave is about 100 meters (328 feet) away from that of “The Ivory Lady,” whose skeletal remains were found buried with an elephant’s tusk, an ivory comb, a crystal dagger, an ostrich ...
The Ivory Bangle Lady is a skeleton found in Sycamore Terrace, York in 1901. [1] She was a high-status adult female, potentially of North African descent, who died in York in the 4th century AD. [2] Her skeleton was found with bracelets, pendants, earrings, beads as well as a glass jug and mirror. [3] She appears to have originally been from ...
Today's northern Ivory Coast was at the periphery of the Mali Empire and the great medieval states of the Sahel, while with Portuguese (from the 1460s) and later French colonial expansion, women of the southern regions experienced wars of colonialism and resistance firsthand. In the 1970s, Ivory Coast was considered the economic leader of West ...
Importing ivory in the United States is almost completely banned -- and to highlight just how serious it is about the ban, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is crushing one ton of ivory in New ...
Welcome to Women’s History Month. USA Today showcases 60 women each year as Women of the Year.The women selected may be unknown to many of us. They are women from across the country who ...
Afro-Portuguese ivories are the sculptural works of ivory produced by the people of west-central Africa's Lower Kongo region. [6] In the Kongo Kingdom, ivory was a precious commodity that was strictly controlled by chiefs and kings, who commissioned sculptors to produce fine ivory sculptures for their personal and courtly use. [2]