Japanese Ivory Carvers Working With Modern Tools 



Above: Carving 

 ivory with the aid 

 of machine drill. 

 The Japanese have 

 been quick to adapt 

 modern methods to 

 one of the oldest 

 trades in the world 



Below: Repairing 

 the teeth of a 

 Japanese warrior. 

 This work requires 

 infinite skill and 

 patience. The war- 

 rior is only eight 

 hundred years old 



Above: The first 

 process of ivory 

 carving consists in 

 sawing off the 

 pieces. These are 

 fashioned into ex- 

 quisite orna- 

 ments for mem- 

 bers of both sexes 



At left: Sawnng 

 pieces of ivory with 

 an electric band- 

 saw. Although a 

 quick and modern 

 mctliod of shaping 

 ivory it is not used 

 by the old carvers 



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