CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Author's Preface , v 



Contents xiii 



List of Illustrations xv 



CHAPTER 



I Prehistoric and Ancient Carved Ivories 3 



II Medieval and Modern Ivory Carvings . 38 



III Oriental Ivory Carvings 99 



IV Elephants, Historical 136 



V Elephant Hunting, Etc 192 



VI Sources, Composition, and Qualities of 



Ivory 219 



VII Working of Ivory 241 



VIII Vegetable and Imitation Ivory .... 279 



IX Narwhal Horns, Walrus Tusks, Etc. . 292 

 X Elephants, Evolution of; Also Mastodon, 



Mammoth, Etc 323 



XI Elephant Tusks . 387 



XII The Commerce of Ivory ...... 432 



Addenda 474 



Proboscidea Genera 487 



Ivory Carvers of All Lands and Times . . . 495 



List of Chinese Ivory Carvers 509 



List of Japanese Ivory Carvers 510 



Index 513 



