| Ivory has long been used for oriental artistic precious | | | | No matter what the object of the ivory carving has |
| carvings as far back as the prehistoric time period. | | | | been about, it has always been and still is today a |
| Even with the earliest of prehistoric carvings, there are | | | | design of only the hand carving method. Ivory carving |
| culturally and societal distinctive details of each and | | | | was once only considered to be "real" ivory carving |
| every continent that has long been left behind to only | | | | when from the Wooly Mammoth, and then the |
| be discovered many centuries later. These ivory | | | | different varieties of elephants like the elephants of |
| carving literally tell us so much about the past worlds | | | | India, Africa and North America. But now the ocean's |
| of the Chinese, Roman, the Egyptian, the Indian, the | | | | Walrus, the Hornbill, the Elk and Deer, the |
| African, the Japanese, the North American and most | | | | Hippopotamus, the Rhinoceros, various species of |
| every other past and many of the present cultures of | | | | whales, and even various types of the pig family are |
| the artistic ways of the world. | | | | within the realms of ivory collections and carving. |
| It was the era of the Roman that made ivory carving | | | | Even though, it is the Wooly Mammoth and the |
| an official part of the Christian artistic means. There | | | | different elephants throughout the many continents |
| were carved ivory boxes that would be specifically for | | | | that originally considered the true definition of what |
| religious pieces, and the many types of ivory jewelry | | | | ivory is considered to be, the list above is proof that |
| has crossed over to every culture creating ivory | | | | there are has long been a good number of our world's |
| jewelry, whether religious or not. There were also | | | | animals and mammals long providing their tusks and |
| book panels made of ivory just for the protections any | | | | teeth as ivory for carving. For a most all true ivory |
| and every type of biblically or religious written books. | | | | lovers, no matter the animal that once possessed the |
| These ivory book protecting covers were most | | | | ivory that has been carved into exquisite detailed |
| popular during the 6th Century, and would often be | | | | beauty, ivory in most any origin and formation is to be |
| hand crafted out of five small ivory panels placed | | | | respected directly due to the past life it once was and |
| together, because the ivory tusks were often too | | | | that of the present artistic workings that it has |
| small to make less coving ivory panels of the larger | | | | eventually become to be. |
| needed sizes. | | | | |