My first impression was Indonesian, but it seems to combine features from different Indonesian groups. The Batak of Sumatra do some big chinned...
Hello Gary, and welcome. Despite the soup can, I am having difficulty understanding the size. it appears to be way too big to be an actual mask....
Which is what I have said - absence of easily visible schreger lines does not mean an object is not ivory, but if you do see them it is a positive...
@808 raver - The examples you have shown are of thin slices of ivory cut along the length of the tusk, exposing tangential surfaces, highly...
Perhaps something like a Cracker Jack toy?
All elephant ivory has the structures that appear as schreger lines - it is the way it grows, and is a unique characteristic of elephant ivory....
The dummy eggs are also made in brown and green, because some chicken and duck eggs are those colors.
The first one is made from obsidian, but that is as far as I can go. Do you have any idea what continent they come from? @DrPam has contributed...
It may be a dummy egg - "Perfect for training your chickens on where to lay their eggs. When there are eggs in your nesting boxes they will...
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NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! To identify ivory, look for a subtle pattern of cross hatching, known as "schreger lines" (after the fellow who first...
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Possibly from Thailand. The bowl is made from a coconut shell. [IMG]...
It looks like ivory to me - the most diagnostic surface will be the cross section at the base. The style looks Indian (India). [IMG]...
Looks like a black bear canine.
The little lady looks somewhat similar to a bronze figurine found at Mohenjo Daro: [IMG] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Girl_(sculpture)
It always helps to do a search of previous posts. :) Here are some of @Taupou's previous discussions of Fijian tapa/masi:...
I think the subject is a "see no evil" monkey, but I don't know who made it.
No, not wrong. I was hoping the source would provide specific information for each pipe because the one on the upper right looks like it might be...
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