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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 ...
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 ...
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.
The Ivory Coast is the world's largest producer of cacao and cashews and has a subsistence agriculture-based economy. [15] However, under the customary system of land ownership , women are often denied access to land ownership; according to a 2013 World Bank report, Ivorian women, especially rural areas, are often "forced to negotiate plots of ...
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 ...
The Igbesanmwan is a hereditary guild of ivory carvers in the Benin Kingdom, a pre-colonial African state located in present-day Edo State, Nigeria.Members of the Igbesanmwan guild hold the responsibility of crafting ivory items, including masks, tusks, staffs, leopards, and various other symbols denoting royal authority and eminence, for the Oba (king) and the royal court.
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]
“In my work, memory is very important,” 61-year-old Romuald Hazoumé told CNN in a video interview ahead of the Biennale’s opening. “(Benin) always thought about other people’s cultures ...