INDEX 



Aachen, tusk in Cathedral of, 402 

 ^lian, on elephants taught to write, 151 

 "Age of mammals," duration of, 331 

 Ageltruda, ivory diptych given by, 42 

 Akeley, Carl, vii 



Al Beruni, of walrus ivory, 302, 303 

 Albert, Xing of the Belgians, 94 

 Alexander the Great, 171 



Indian elephants captured by, 145 



elephants represented on funeral car of, 

 146 



quaint elephant figures to illustrate 

 romance of, 153 



of war elephants, 193 

 Alexander, E. M., tusks owned by, 428 

 Alfred the Great hears of walrus ivory, 303 

 Alkamenes, 25 

 Allan, J., ix 

 Alliott, Hector, ix 

 Amber figure of elephant, 181 

 Ambraser Collection, Vienna, 59 

 American. ivory carvings, 84, 85, 90, 95, 96, 



320, 321, 482 

 American Museum of Natural History, 

 366, 373, 376, 391, 413 



expedition sent by, to Alaska, 354, 356, 

 391 

 Amulets of ivory and bone, 11, 14, 84 



horns as amulets, 311 



teeth as amulets, 312 



boars' tusks as amulets, 313 



tooth amulet of Kiriwini islanders, 316 



hoof amulets, 318 



elk teeth as amulets, 318 



bears' teeth as amulets, 319 



tip of elephant tusk as, 409, 410 

 Analyses of ivory, 226, 227 

 Antiochus XII, coins of, with torch-bearing 



elephants, 177 

 Aphrodite, statue of, in Sikyon, 25 

 Aprimont, Haute-Saone, ivories found in 



tumuli of, 28 

 Areobundus, consular diptych of, 31 

 Aristotle, on war elephants, 145 



on elephant hunting, 193 

 Arnold, Sir Edwin, 170 



Arrian, on war elephants, 145, 146 

 Artemis Orthia, ivories found in temple of, 



at Sparta, 17, 19 

 Ashby, George E., viii 

 Ash well, Thomas W., viii 

 Asklepios, ivory and gold statues of, at 

 Epidauros, 24, 26, 29 



at Sikyon, 25 

 Assamese ivory carving. 111, 117 

 Assyro-Babylonian ivory carvings, 11, 13 

 Athene, statue of, in Elis, 26 



in Pellene, 26 



at Alalkomene, 26 



at Tegea, 26 

 Athene of Megara, statue of, 25 

 Athene Parthenos, statue of, in Parthenon, 



25, 26, 27, 29, 256 

 Aubert, Jean, medieval ivory carver, 58 

 Augustin, Jean Baptiste, 85 

 Augustus, Elector of Saxony, 65 

 Aurelian, secured fine tusks after defeating 



Firmus, 402 

 Aurengzeb, Shah, life endangered in ele- 

 phant combat, 158 



war elephants owned by, 159 

 Avril, Philippe, on fossil ivory, 237, 233 



Baer, J. W., viii, 85 



Bailey, Hakaliah, first to show elephant in 



America, 155, 156 

 Bakelite, ivory substitute for billiard balls, 



249 

 Baker, Henry D., x 

 Baker, Sir Samuel, first to use small-bore 



rifle in elephant hunting, 206 

 Bangles of ivory, 101, 438 

 Banks, James Edgar, 13 

 Barbour, Erwin H., ix, xi 

 Bardwell, John, 424 

 Barnes, James, vii 



tusks secured by, 418 

 Barney, Arthur L., viii 

 Barnum, Phineas T., mounted and exhibited 



"Bet," first elephant brought to 



America, 156 



bought and exhibited "Jumbo," 188 



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