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The basic definition of ivory is the teeth and tusks that are most completely consistent of the material called dentine. This is a whitish creamy color of opaque material that is mostly calcium phosphate and a little of collagen. This dentine material is enamel covered, and just like our tooth enamel, it will often show more wearing off of the enamel overtime. What many do not realize about ivory tusks is that they are made of the same material as teeth, but they are just larger and protruding outside the mouth instead. This is a common confusion for many individuals when trying to decipher what ivory truly is.
Pure ivory does not come from just one specific species like the elephant for example, but ivory can come from the tusks or teeth of also of walruses, various kinds of whales, hippopotamuses, African elephants, Asian male elephants, wooly mammoth remains, and the pig or wild boar or wart hog family of animals.
When it comes to being able to recognize the different types of ivory, there are different ivory characteristics to look for. The ivory should have a feeling of silkiness and a high glossy feel. In an example, ivory that is cross sections cut the ivory will displays the pattern of intersectional arches that can be seen when looking down the ivory piece lengthwise. There will be variations of wavy irregular lines when viewing the ivory down a length direction.
There are trickery types of materials that individuals will try to deserve others as real ivory, and the most common material is bone. The bone of animals is colored the same, and when they are in smaller versions of so-called artistic handcrafted items, the confusion is extremely easy. But the difference is that most all bone types of items are hollow in the middle and this is the biggest give away in false ivory handcrafted items.
Antler is another form of fake ivory, so there should be knowledge of that antler is actually darker than that of real ivory with a honeycomb center. Plastic is also a false replacement for real ivory, but if it is a lighter than expected piece of ivory artwork then you can often assume that there is fakeness such as plastic type of material. There have also been fake ivory items made from re-constructed powdered bones, but the color and weight will often give these types of fake ivory materials away very quickly to the real ivory collector.
Anita Satin Choudhary writes for Ivory and Art Gallery. Browse the gallery for unique collection of artifacts ranging from Mammoth Ivory to netsuke.
All About Ivory Procurement
By now most all know of the original ivories being used belong to elephant's teeth and tusks or the woolly mammoth's teeth and tusks, but what about some of the other natural forms of ivory? One of the first on the list of natural ivory suppliers of yesterday and today is the Walrus's tusks and teeth. The Pacific Walrus is able to grow their tusks to the average size in length of around 5-cm. The tusks of a Walrus are elongated and the teeth are irregularly round in shape. The other very popular ivory giving animal of today and yesterday is the Helmeted Hornbill.
By now most all know of the original ivories being used belong to elephant's teeth and tusks or the woolly mammoth's teeth and tusks, but what about some of the other natural forms of ivory? Where else does one of our most beautifully precious and artistic commodities actually come from besides the elephants (now illegal) or the limited number of extinct woolly mammoth? The answers to these curious ivory questions may surprise you in how many other of our animals today give us the natural beauty of ivory.
One of the first on the list of natural ivory suppliers of yesterday and today is the Walrus's tusks and teeth. The Pacific Walrus is able to grow their tusks to the average size in length of around 5-cm. The tusks of a Walrus are elongated and the teeth are irregularly round in shape. As the Walrus grows from youth to adult size and age, the tusk coating of enamel will were away, and the oval shaped tusks will overtime have certain specific formations of cracks throughout the tusks.
The Artic regions of humanity have long used walrus since the times of prehistoric human existence. Some of the cultures that are most well-known for ivory engraving and carving of the Walrus's tusks and teeth are the Inuit clans of North America and Greenland, and the Koryak and Chukchi clans that lived roamed and lived throughout the continent of Russia.
Another unusual means to ivory of past and present is the Warthog. The common warthog is of the pig family branch and has long lived throughout many parts of Africa. The Warthogs are the approximate size of 3 feet to 5 feet in overall body length and have the average weight of a little over a 100 pounds to slightly beyond 300 pounds. Not only do they have more than one pair of tusks, but the two teeth are used for defense and digging mechanisms for their survival. It is the upper protruding teeth that can reach up to 9 inches in length, with the lower set being of the shorter status.
The other very popular ivory giving animal of today and yesterday is the Helmeted Hornbill. The Helmeted Hornbill is a very large bird deriving from the islands of Sumatra, Malay and Borneo. Although there are many centuries of the native peoples with a very long history of carving objects out of the Hornbill, Hornbill ivory has also been historically connected with China's Ming Dynasty, along with the historical Japanese cultural artistic means of an ideal Netsuke carving material that goes as far back as 300 years ago.
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