Some tusks are from young elephants — representing ... A pair of 18-inch-tall Asian ivory figurines depicting a classical Chinese lady and gentleman already were labeled with price tags: $ ...

The primary reason for the hunt is food, but the sale of tusks and carvings helps bring in cash. "We've taken a pretty big hit on this elephant ivory ban. People are getting mistaken with it ...

What it is: A lifelike figurine of a Neolithic woman carved out of the ivory core of a mammoth tusk. Where it was found: Inside the Grotte du Pape ("Pope's Cave") in Brassempouy, a village in ...

Tucked in Downtown Memphis, the Belz Museum of Asian & Judaic Art offers a journey across continents and centuries in a ...

The material can be 3D-printed and polished to create deceptively authentic carvings. Rath and her team ... reproduce the chemistry of a real ivory tusk – so much so that they say it is ...

Other times, however, it gets carved into the form of figurines or other ... Samples of elephant and mammoth ivory utilized in the study – although complete tusks of the two materials may ...

Tell-tale 'Schreger lines' are the growth lines of a tusk that can be seen in carved ivory, seen here in this ... a bracelet and a set of figurines, two were chemically confirmed by scientists ...