Tusk Collection

Mammal and Whale Gallery
Models of an Asiatic elephant (left) and an African elephant (right), on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24) at the Natural History Museum, London

Ivory Workshop
A man prepares an ivory tusk in his workshop

Member of the Meru Tribe - Kenya, East Africa
Memeber of the Meru Tribe - Kenya, East Africa. Both men and women of this region stretch their ears, although today more women than men follow the practice

Ivory tusk warehouse, London Date: late 19th century

Ivory tusk warehouse, London, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Africa Ivory store in Mandala pre-1900

Africa. The Congo. Herd of elephants
History of Africa. 19th century. Herd of elephants. Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre

Africa. Congo. Ivory porters
History of Africa. 19th century. Ivory porters. Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre

Extraordinary view of an entire floor of ivory in a huge warehouse, a portion of the ivory came from Asia, but the better bulk was imported from Africa

Ivory Cavers Workshop 1908
Two Japanese men carefully carving into ivory making figure to sell. Date: 1908

Original Artwork - Noahs Elephant with red spots
Original Artwork - The Elephant in Noahs Ark with red spots - Christmas design. Date: circa 1937

Travellers riding elephants in India, c. 1900
Vintage 19th century photograph - tourists, travellers riding elephants in India, c.1900

Forestry logging in Burma - elephant pulling a log c.1930

Ling, burbot, oyster toadfish and tusk
Ling, Molva molva 99, burbot, Lota lota 100, oyster toadfish, Opsanus tau 101, 102, and tusk fish, Brosme brosme 103. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of

Weapons, clothes, tomb and boat of the Chukchi
Pick-axe made with a walrus tusk, stone hatchet of Alaska, wooden instrument with claws used by the Chukchi people to hunt walrus, tomb of the Unalaskans, and baidar (boat)

Sea unicorn or narwhal, Monodon monoceros. Rare specimen with double tusks. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Cusk or tusk, Brosme brosme (Brosme or Scotch torsk, Gadus brosme). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C. and J

Engraved mammoth tusk
Mammoth tusk engraved of Grevettian age. 25, 000 - 30, 000 years ago during the Upper Palaeolithic and within the great Stone Age from Dolni Vestonice, Moravia, Czech Republic

Sinbad and Giant
The one-eyed, big-eared, hairy-legged, short-necked, tusk-toothed giant encountered, somewhat to their dismay, by Sinbad and his companions

Papuan Man wearing a gibi-gibi - Wonar village
Papuan Man wearing a gibi-gibi - Wonar (or Wonari) village, Cape Nelson District, North-Eastern Division, Papua New Guinea

Model of the Ilford Mammoth
A model of the woolly mammoth found at Ilford, Essex, England, held by Fossil Mammals, Palaeontology

Oliphant. Aachen Cathedral Treasury. Germany
Oliphant of Charlemagne. C. 1000. Ivory. Hunting knife (8th century) and sheath (10th - 11th centuries). Aachen Cathedral Treasury. Germany

Magical wand. Egypt
Magical wand of ivory of hippopotamus tusk with images depicting deities and protective spirits to ward off evil spirits. To provide magical protection for mother and child. 1750 BC. 12th Dynasty

Ethiopian Giant Forest Hog
The giant forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni), the only member of its genus, is native to wooded habitats in Africa and generally is considered the largest wild member of the pig family, Suidae

Discovery of the Adams mammoth, 1799
Discovery of a frozen mammoth in Siberia. A local chief spotted the creature, encased in transparent ice, on the banks of the river Lena in 1799

Ivory - Vili Tribesmen - Elephant Hunters
Ivory trade in the Congo, Africa - Vili Tribesmen - Famed elephant Hunters. The photograph was taken by Robert Visser, a German merchant who managed Cacao and Coffee plantations. He took approx

Cambodian Elephant Date: circa 1904

Large Ivory tusk from the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
Large Ivory tusk, weighing over 200lbs from the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania, East Africa. Date: circa 1910s

The Trafalgar Square of 100, 000 years ago
When lions really crouched where Nelson now stands: the Trafalgar Square of 100, 000 years ago, its flora and fauna and interglacial landscape

Two pigs carrying in drinks on a French New Year postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Pigs with boars head on a Christmas card
Four sad-looking pigs carrying a boars head on a Christmas and New Year card. circa 1890s

Play / Wilde / Beardsley
John and Salome. An illustration from Salome by Oscar Wilde, 1894. Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)

Brosme brosme, or Cusk, also known as Torsk, Tusk, Brismak, Brosmius and Moonfish. Date: 1864

Elephant tusk, Dentalium elephantinum.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Dinocerata, extinct herbivorous, rhinoceros-like hoofed creatures with paired horns and tusks.. Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World

Mastodon, a large tusked mammal species of the extinct genus Mammut.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1916

Statues on the road to Ming Tombs, Nanjing, China. Date: circa 1890

Bringing home the Spoils
The Mr Hartleys Matabile bringing tusks to Camp. August 1869 Sketch 68 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines, (1859-1871)

The largest mammoth tusk, 1931
A mammoth tusk from Siberia, nearly 14 feet long, just presented to the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, is believed to be the largest yet known. It is the gift from the Rowland Ward Trustees

Engraved mammoth tusk
Mammoth tusk engraved of Grevettian age. 25, 000 - 30, 000 years ago during the Upper Palaeolithic and within the great Stone Age from Dolni Vestonice, Moravia, Czech Republic

Mammuthus trogontherii, steppe mammoth
Cranium and tusks of this Pleistocene steppe mammoth found at Ilford, Essex, England on display at the Natural History Museum, London

Elephant trunk with numbers

Cutting ivory to make piano keys
A craftsman cuts (ethically harvested) ivory tusks in order to make piano keys

Agra - Fatehpursikri - Hiran Minar
The Elephant Tower at Fatehpursikri, Agra, India. Alledged to have been built by the Emperor Jehangir (1569 - 1627) in memory of his favourite elephant

Mrs. Mary French Sheldon, c. 1909
Photograph of Mrs. Mary (May) French Sheldon (1847-1936), the American explorer and writer, pictured with a carved elephant tusk, c.1909

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Tusk Talisman
TUSK TALISMAN carved in basalt, worn by the Etruscans in honour of Isis, hoping for her protection

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