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Walrus Ivory 306 



Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Collection of Commander G. T. Emmons 



Sections of Walrus Tusk 308 



From Behring Sea Coast of Alaska. Collection of Commander G. T. Emmons 



Fish-line Complete; Work of Eskimo ...... 308 



From Behring Sea Coast of Alaska, Collection of Commander G. T. Emmons 



Eskimo Ivory Carvings 309 



From Behring Sea Coast of Alaska. Collection of Commander G. T. Emmons 



Expert Chinese Ivory Carver 310 



Canton. 



Temple at Kandy, Ceylon 314 



Where the Sacred Tooth-relic of Buddha Is Kept. 



"The Tooth of Buddha" 315 



The Great Sacred Relic of Ceylon. 



Scrimshaw Work Done by American Sailors About 1864 320 



Etchings on Walrus Tusk. Decoration on Bone of a Whale. 



Collection of the Author 



Scrimshaw Work of American Sailor 321 



a Pair of Walrus Tusks. Collection of A. N. Beadleston, Esq. 



The GrixN^ding Teeth of Mastodons, Mammoths, and 



Modern Elephants 332 



American Museum of Natural History, Proboscidian Hall 



The Beresovka Mammoth {Elephas Primigenius) . . 333 



From Northwestern Siberia. 



In the Imperial Museum of Natural History, Petrograd 



Arrangement of Four Skeletons 340 



Asiatic Elephant; African Elephant; Columbian Mammoth; Warren Mastodon. 

 American Museum Natural History, Proboscidian Hall 



Mammut Americanum 341 



From the Rancho la Brea Fossil Beds, Los Angeles, California. 



Published by Courtesy of Director Frank S. Daggett 



Remains of Mammoth, Mastodon, and Other Extinct 



Species 358 



From the Deposits at Rancho la Brea, Los Angeles County, California. 



In the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science, and Art 



Rancho la Brea 359 



Showing Location of Fossil Pits in the Background, Los Angeles, California 



