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Thule snow goggles: 1,000-year-old Arctic eyewear carved from walrus tusks
In the Inuktitut language, the goggles are known as iggaak. Carved from walrus ivory, the goggles were made sometime between 800 and 1200. The eyewear measures 5 inches (12.7 centimeters ...
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Medicine: New Bones for Old
No scrap of human bone that Dr. Groves could safely snip from the boy was large enough to fill the space, so he procured a piece of ivory from a walrus tusk, carved it to order, planted it in the ...
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The Unexpected Walrus
And for a walrus to hit one of us can be lethal ... Medieval Europeans carved chess sets from tusks. From the 16th century to the 20th, commercial whalers exploited walruses, reducing a ...
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Example of Walrus Ivory Carving (IMAGE)
Caption This is an example of an elaborately-carved ecclesiastical walrus ivory plaque from the beginning of the medieval walrus ivory trade, featuring the figure of Christ, together with St Mary ...
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Russia’s Federal Customs Service finds tusks of rare walrus in passenger’s luggage
MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/. Domodedovo customs officers have found the tusks of an endangered walrus species in a passenger’s luggage, Russia’s Federal Customs Service reported. According to it ...