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Categories: Ivory Sculpture materials All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from June 2007 |
Summary Of: IvoryIvory has availed itself to many ornamental and practical uses... Synthetic substitutes for ivory have been developed... been viewed by piano purists as an inferior ivory substitute on piano keys... Section through the ivory tooth of a mammoth... Ivory has been a most prestigious material for carving... Ivory cover of the... civilizations used large quantities of ivory to make high value works of art... Ivory was often used to form the white of the eyes of statues... The Chinese have long valued ivory for both art and utilitarian objects... Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese... ivory was moved along the... Chinese craftsmen carved ivory to make everything from images of deities to the pipe... Laos and Cambodia traditionally harvested ivory from their domesticated elephants... Ivory was prized for containers due to its ability to keep an airtight seal... Ivory was also commonly carved into elaborate seals utilized by officials to... ivory was the material of choice for making the handles of magical... ivory was also used to craft the faces and hands of Catholic icons and images of... Tooth and tusk ivory can be carved into a vast variety of shapes and objects... A small example of modern carved ivory objects are small statuary such as... ivory was important for cutlery handles... Ivory can be taken from dead animals... however most ivory came from elephants who were killed for their tusks... which have very hard white ivory prized for making artificial teeth... the importation and sale of ivory in many countries is banned or severely restricted... Since the worldwide ivory trade ban by... ups and downs in elephant populations and the ivory trade as bans have been placed and lifted... claim that the ivory trade is necessary... 500 million ivory sales generated ever reach Africans... ivory transactions on Ebay violated their own wildlife policies and could potentially be illegal... An ivory auction has been conducted with many tons of ivory sold to bidders from China and... nearly 10 years that international trade in elephant ivory has been sanctioned by the UN... claims that legalizing ivory trade anywhere in Africa will endanger elephants everywhere in Africa as poachers would attempt to... launder their illegal ivory with legal stockpiles... Trade in the ivory from the tusks of dead... Mammoth ivory is used today to make handcrafted knives and similar implements... Mammoth ivory is rare and costly... granted China and Japan permission to import elephant ivory from African government stockpiles in a one... it had lost track of 121 tons of ivory between 1991 and 2002... Ivory Carving in Thailand... reports on the ivory trade including those on ETIS... Ivory carving in France...Encyclodia Page On: Ivory |
