| # ITEM NO. N2859 | | | | well preserved. Therefore, Mammuthus primigenus is |
| Item Name: Mammoth Ivory "2 Panda" Netsuke | | | | the only extinct proboscidan which consistently |
| Condition: Brand New | | | | provides high quality, valuable and precious carvable |
| Item Material: 100% Genuine Mammoth ivory | | | | ivory. |
| handcrafted "2 Panda" netsuke ,size: 1-1/4" x 1" x 1-1/16" | | | | MAMMOTH [mammoth] name for several large |
| (32mm x 26mm x 27mm). | | | | prehistoric elephants of the extinct genus Mammuthus, |
| This netsuke is carved by our artisan. The carving is | | | | which ranged over Eurasia and North America in the |
| very detail and wonderful workmanship. | | | | Pleistocene epoch. The shoulder height of the Siberian, |
| Remarks: This item is 100% handmade. All materials | | | | or woolly, mammoth, which roamed throughout the |
| we used are in high quality. It is a good choice for | | | | Northern Hemisphere, was about 9 ft (2.7 m), and that |
| netsuke collectors. | | | | of the imperial mammoth of the North American Great |
| Packing: It comes with a delicate gift box. It is good | | | | Plains was up to 13 1/2 ft (4.1 m). Mammoths were |
| idea as a gift for yourself and someone special. | | | | covered by a long, shaggy, black outer coat and a |
| Shipping Cost:Free of Charge | | | | dense, woolly undercoat. They had complex, |
| WHAT IS MAMMOTH TUSK IVORY? Mammoth tusk | | | | many-ridged molar teeth; long, slender upward-curved |
| ivory comes from the two modified upper incisors of | | | | tusks; and a long trunk. Ivory hunters have collected |
| extinct mammoth. | | | | their tusks for centuries in Siberia, where some 50,000 |
| Mammoth Tusk Ivory is an International Free Trade | | | | have been discovered; it is from these and from the |
| merchandise | | | | drawings left by the Cro-Magnon people in the caves |
| Unlike African and modern elephant ivory, mammoths | | | | of S France that the mammoth's appearance is |
| have been extinct for 10,000 years. It is not listed in the | | | | known. Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) people hunted |
| Appendices to the CITES. As such, it is not subject to | | | | mammoths, as is evidenced by remains of the animals |
| control under the Animals and Plants (Protection of | | | | found together with tools, and may have contributed to |
| Endangered Species) Ordinance, Cap. 187. All | | | | their extinction. Mammoths are classified in the phylum |
| mammoth ivory tusk itself is already a precious | | | | Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, |
| antique. Because of the geographical range in Alaska | | | | order Proboscidea, family Elephantidae. |
| and Siberia , Mammuthus primigenus tusks have been | | | | |