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a vase and a pair of “statues” that are actually supposed to have been made from a pair of carved African elephant tusks. The vase looks like it too might have been carved from elephant ivory ...
Jewelry and statues made out of the ivory from at least 100 slaughtered elephants were crushed Thursday during a ceremonial demonstration in Central Park. The $8 million worth of ivory was ...
Carefully, the Chinese ivory dealer pulled out an elephant tusk cloaked in bubble ... of electric saws being used to carve wooden dragon statues. "Come back in early June and I should be able ...
Carefully, the Chinese ivory dealer pulled out an elephant tusk cloaked in bubble ... of electric saws being used to carve wooden dragon statues. "Come back in early June and I should be able ...
He hopes that elephant ivory and rhino horn will lose their luster. “We want to introduce a sense of embarrassment and shame to the use of products for ornaments, for statues or for eating ...
The Elephant Monk, Kruba Dharmamuni, who used to be the Scorpion Monk and still displays a life-size statue of himself as a scorpion in his temple, wants to take me ivory shopping in Surin.
A Saratoga man was arrested and charged Wednesday in connection with selling art objects made of elephant ... a Japanese statue worth $59. In December 2013, he received $700 for an ivory carving ...
This has created a growing problem for customs officials, who find it near impossible to tell the difference between mammoth and elephant ivory when presented with a worked object, such as a statue.
Samples of elephant and mammoth ivory utilized in the study – although complete tusks of the two materials may differ in appearance, such is not the case with small or carved pieces Ben Booth 2 / 2 ...