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26th August 2025, 03:08 AM
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Rick, are you talking about the smaller piece or both of them?
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27th August 2025, 03:32 PM
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I'm getting a bit confused here, there is only one piece of Bone/Tusk, correct?
At the narrow end where the square hole is, if you look where the narrow end is cut off, the end grain seems to show the dentine as a different pattern as seen in the picture below. While doing a bit of a search for like tools, I came across a picture of very similar Inuit items. All of the descriptions of these were identified as petrified tusk. I should have saved the photos, but I didn't. Maybe an image search for Inuit ice axe will provide the picture again. https://walrusivory.org/wp-content/u...py-980x784.jpg Last edited by Rick; 27th August 2025 at 04:26 PM. Reason: not enough coffee, or maybe too much |
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28th August 2025, 05:24 PM
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With the exception of the wooden handle, there are 2 pcs. that are either bone or tusk.
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