New World, present day Alaska, and Central Asia, Siberia, Pleistocene (Ice Age), ca. 100,000 to 20,000 years old. A fossilized fragment of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) tusk and a tuft of hair. The tusk is polished at one end, revealing its creamy white enamel. The underside displays the layers within the tusk and the exterior surface has developed a caramel color from the fossilization process. Included is a tuft of hair preserved by the icy climate that these mammoths once thrived in! Mammoths lived in a time period when the northern hemisphere was dominated by massive ice sheets. Imagine encountering this animal on an Ice Age steppe, towering up to 13 feet at the shoulder and weighing up to 12 tons, with the tusk - of which this is just a small component - and its partner rising in an upward curve from their jaw. These tusks could be up to ten feet long! Size of tusk: 10.2" L x 2.5" W (25.9 cm x 6.4 cm)
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Provenance: private Hagar collection, Wildwood, Missouri, USA
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Condition
The tusk is a fragment of a larger section and the surface is coated with a stabilizing fixative. The thicker end is polished.