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INDEX 



Tusks, of elephants, 136, 154, 159, 207, 220, 

 222, 233, 240, 333, 344, 346, 350-352, 

 353, 354, 358, 359, 300, 365, 366, 376. 

 380, 387, 432 



obtained on the Guinea Coast in 1556, 

 197 



bullets embedded in, 222, 224, 225 



suffering of elephants from decayed, 223 

 224, 226 



abnormal growths in, 224-226 



gnawed by rodents, 240 



weights of fossil, 347, 427 



evolution of, 387, 388 



in Imp. Mus. of Nat. Hist., Petrograd, 

 389, 390, 392, 393 



in Stuttgart Naturaliencabinett, 390, 391 



in Instituto Geologico of Mexico City, 



391, 397 



in Franzen's Museum, Brilnn, Austria, 



391 

 in Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 



392, 395 



from Borna, Saxony, mammoth, 394 

 from Tilloux dept. Charente, France, 394 

 in Nebraska State Museum, 396 

 in Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 



397 

 from North West Palace at Nimroud, 



400 

 borne in Scipio's triumph, 401 

 in ancient temple treasures, 401 

 from Somali Coast, 403 

 from Sumatra, 404 

 of Cinghalese elephants, 404 

 from Congo region, 405-407 

 of H. J. Heinz, 406 

 of Ludwig II of Bavaria, 408 

 of Gordon Cumming, 409 

 in Royal Museum, Siam, 409, 423, 424 

 tip of tusk set as amulet, 409 

 in Cathedral of Goa, 410 

 heaviest pair of, 410-412 

 effect of American climate on, 410, 411 

 given by Charles F. Barney to New 



York Zoological Gardens, 412 

 in National Museum, Dublin, 414 

 secured by James Sutherland, 415 

 by Lt. Alexander H. Wheeler, 415 

 given to Harvard Club by W. Sewall, 



415 

 buried, in Africa, 416 

 owned by William Fitz Hugh WTiite- 



house, 417 

 secured by Richard Tjader, 418 

 in W. S. Clierry Collection of Los Angeles 



Co. Museurn, 418 

 secured by James Barnes, 418 

 "working tusk" called Hadam or "Serv- 

 ant" by Arabs, 419 



Tusks, of elephants, from Bahr-el-Ghazel, 

 Sudan, 420 

 average weight of, imported to Antwerp, 



420 

 method for carving, 422 

 lists of, from Rowland Ward's "Big 



Game," 427-431 

 difference between those of African and 

 Asiatic elephants, 434 

 Tusks, carved, 99, 116, 120, 130, 131, 134. 



321, 353 

 Tusks, famous, lists of 426-431 



Ulphus, horn of, 46 



"Unicorn" horns, see narwhal horns 



University of Pennsylvania Museum, 10 



Van Beurden, Alph., ivories by, 81 

 Van Hove, G., ivories by, 80 

 Vanderbilt, George W^, 96 

 Vandervoorde, G., ivories by, 79 

 Vatican Museum, 42 

 Vegetable ivory, 279-289 



sources of, 279 



commerce in, 280, 283-288 



method of securing, 280, 281 



value of, 281, 285. 286, 288 



use of for buttons, 281-283 



specific gra\'ity of, 284 



how to distinguish, from genuine ivory, 

 290 

 Venetian school of ivory carving, 54, 59 

 Venadsky, E., xi 

 "Venus de Brassempouy," prehistoric 



ivory car\'ing, 5, 6 

 Vere, Mrs. D. W. de. Director of Oakland 



Museum, Cal., ix 

 Vermeylen, F., ivories by, 81 

 Verres, Caius, 22 

 Victor III, Pope, 97 



Victoria, Queen, Hindu ivory throne given 

 to. 111 



miniature carved for, by Hindu artist, 114 

 Victoria and Albert Museum, 32, 92, 95 

 " Vierge de Boubon," rare ivory car\-ing, 65 

 "Vierges Ouvertes," peculiar ivory carv- 

 ings, 65 

 Vingotte, Thomas, ivories by, 78, 95 

 Virchow, Rudolf, 224 



Virgil, of ivory shoulder blade of Pelops, 342 

 Vizagapatam work, 107 

 Voigt & Hochgesang, Messrs., x 

 Volkenburgh, T. S. Van, ivory collection of, 



476 

 Vries, S. de, of tusk imports to India, 403 



W^alrus : 



names of, 305 



species and habitat of, 308-310 



