322 IVORY AND THE ELEPHANT 



More recently the Japanese have taken up the ivory 

 bead industry, have introduced the use of machinery, and 

 are therefore enabled to make beads for a very small part 

 of what the cost would be when manufactured by the Eski- 

 mos. These machine-made beads are more regular, but 

 less artistic, than those made by hand, nevertheless they 

 find a ready sale among the tourists. The Eskimos of the 

 Alaskan Coast have worked the modern walrus ivory, as 

 well as the water- worn walrus ivory cast up on beaches, 

 into beads that are fairly round and only slightly irregular; 

 occasionally they have a long, oval-shaped bead for the 

 centre of a necklace. These beads are sold from Juneau 

 to Nome, a distance of 1,500 miles. Their colour ranges from 

 a dull bronze almost into an olive green. 



The Jonathan Bourne Memorial \Mialing Museum, 

 situated adjacent to and connected with the Historical So- 

 ciety of New Bedford, was founded by Miss E. H. Bourne of 

 New Bedford, Massachusetts, and New York, daughter of the 

 late Jonathan Bourne. Of this museum it can be said that 

 it contains everything relating to whaling, including a half- 

 size whaler ship with its full complement of men. Here may 

 be seen as well carved teeth, carved whalebone, and other 

 objects of corresponding nature. 



The "Tuskers of the Deep" are principally represented 

 by the narwhal and the walrus. A typical example of the 

 double-tusked narwhal is in the British Museum Nat- 

 ural History collections. It is noteworthy that in this 

 specimen, acquired in 1885, the spiral twist has the same di- 

 rection in both tusks, in marked contrast to those of spiral- 

 horned animals, where there is a right-hand spiral on one 

 horn and a left-hand spiral on the other one.* 



*" Guide to the Whales, Porpoises, and Dolphins (order Cetacea), exhibited in the 

 Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History)", London, 1909, pp. 33, fig- 

 ured on plate opp. p. 28. 



