Fossil Walrus Partial Skull and Tusk 03

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Walrus Skull Partial With Tusk- Partial upper skull (80%) of a bull walrus with a very nice brown tusk colored from burial, complete with 7 molars in the palate. The tusk is 17” long and 7” in circumference, the length from the top of the skull to the tip  of the tusk is 24” and the weight is 13 pounds 12 ounces.  The cranium was broken probably to get the brains and the left tusk socket is empty and amazing to see how deep it goes.  The skull is grey from exposure is hundreds of years old and is bone and the tusk is ivory, not stone.  For display or could be cut up, just the tusk is worth this price, includes free shipping and insurance!

 

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Excavated on St. Lawrence Island by Eskimo people known as Siberian Yupik. For over 5,000 years the Yupiks had villages along the Bering Sea and fashioned sled runners, net weights, chopping tools and other utensils out of readily available ivory. That ivory became hidden from the world for centuries, when it was discarded in the village middens (dumps) along with tusks and bones of walrus, whales and seals. Only now is that ancient ivory being unearthed, excavated by the descendants of the primitive Yupiks that worked it.

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