Woolly mammoth ivory being excavated in Alaska and turned into jewelry and scrimshaw
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May. 30, 2006
By JEANNETTE J. LEE Associated Press Writer
(AP)
(AP) In Anchorage's downtown ivory shops, alongside whale baleen baskets and walrus tusk statuettes, are souvenirs made from the fossils of shaggy Ice Age beasts that died on the tundra thousands of years ago.
The bones, teeth and giant curving tusks of woolly mammoths can be found in abundance in Alaska, and the fossils of the elephant-like beasts are routinely _ if not always legally _ turned into jewelry and other curios.
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