Also known as scotia, she is depicted as an old hag with the teeth of a wild bear and
boar's tusks.
Its upper incisors form long
curved tusks
of ivory.
Sections of
mammoth tusks
have been discovered in local gravel pits.
The props on comer's desk include period pipes, maps, and a
walrus tusk.
Tusks of a male wild boar, possibly to mark out his territory.
Elephant's tusks
are large teeth growing from the upper jaw.
Both sexes
have tusks, which are actually overgrown teeth from the upper jaw.
With the asian elephants, only some males grow
large ivory tusks.
The third smaller
ivory tusk
finial from the congo has figures seated in separate rows, rather than a spiral.
Tusks indicate age as the
tusks of young walruses
do not become visible for at least a year and a half after birth.
The heads have a hole in the top that was intended to hold a large
carved ivory tusk.
It is very rare to find a male with evenly
long tusks.
Ivory strictly speaking, the word ivory only applies to the material from which
elephant tusks
are comprised.
Tusks of ivory.
With the asian elephants, only some males
grow large ivory tusks.
Ganesha's most unusual facet is his
single tusk, the other having broken off.
Among them is the
narwhal tusk
used as a walking cane by captain john wood, who owned a fleet of whalers.
Mature males are most aggressive to each other during the autumn rut when potentially fatal injuries can be inflicted from their
sharp tusks.
Most of these elephants had large ivory, however
small tusks
of the two small elephants were not taken.
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