LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xxv 



FOLDING PLATES 



FACING 

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The Elephant and His Ancestors . . . . . . 324 



Map Showing the Distribution of Various Pleistocene 

 Mammal Deposits in Alaska and the Adjacent 

 Canadian Territory 350 



From Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 



Importation of Ivory, 1909-1914 474 



Published by the courtesy of Messrs. Hall & Son, London, England, 



Map Showing the Distribution of the Elephant in 

 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 472 



ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT 



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Prehistoric Ivory Carving 6 



An Inlaid Writing Desk 107 



I. Indian Chessmen of Solid Ivory 113 



II. Indian Chessmen of Hollow Ivory 113 



HI. Kurdish Chessmen 113 



Ivory Images Used as Dice 129 



The Elephant. Drawing from a Late XII Century MS 152 

 The Elephant — Illustration to a XII Century Copy of 



AN Alexander Romance 153 



Ivory Decoration of a Howdah 161 



Here the Elephant Is Termed the Mildest and Most 



Easily Domesticated of All Animals . . . , 164 

 Elephant Figures Formed by a Combination of Arabic 



Letters 167 



Specimen of Hindu "Tugra" Design 168 



Elephant with Mahout on Triumphal Arch . . 172 

 Figure of Ganesa the Elephant-headed Hindu Divin- 

 ity 173 



Medal of Maxentius . 174 



1. Coin of Antiochus Epiphanes Dionysus .... 178 



2. Coin of the Same King; Different Type . . . 178 



