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8th July 2019, 04:36 PM
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Identification of Indian or African ivory object.
This is 10.5cm tall and has a lot of age. I assume the holes are for looping through string. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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13th July 2019, 11:18 PM
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Any Ideas?
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16th July 2019, 06:54 AM
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A total guess. Could it possibly be an Inuit harpoon rest (inside the canoe?). The ivory walrus tusk?
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16th July 2019, 11:41 PM
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The ivory looks like elephant ivory to me with the concentric rings in the middle, no marbling, and the cross hatching.
I would think that this is African. |
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18th July 2019, 09:55 PM
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28th September 2019, 11:43 AM
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Given the oval shape, lengthwise ostrodentine voiding cracks that interupt the dentine and present as radial cracks in cross section, the small dots of cementum at the core, that appear to go all the way through. And the inferred dimensions of the piece (from the one given dimension)... I'm fairly confident that this is walrus tusk ivory.
However I do not believe this to be Inuit in origin as almost all inuit ivory implements I've seen have exposed dowel holes where dowel holes are present (they don't appear on the flat part that marries to another piece as shown here. But are the visible outside of a pieces surface). |
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