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Belz Museum of Asian & Judaic Art - Ivory Carvings
Located in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
For more information about these incredible works of art visit: belzmuseum.org...
IVORY NOTICE: We share a love for elephants and abhor the poaching of even one of these magnificent animals. In that spirit, please note that this ivory is NOT from modern day elephants or elephants at all.
Here is a quote from the museum website that might help clear this up:
"Many of them were created from woolly mammoth tusks found in the permafrost of Siberia that date back 10,000 years. Upon their discovery, the tusks were traded to China and often carved into dioramas by artists in the 1900s."
What is shown in this video are fossilized mammoth tusks, not modern day elephants tusks.