ivory

These goods were probably exchanged with Gedi inhabitants for animal skins and ivory.

The new regs say: “Personal possession of legally acquired items containing elephant ivory will remain legal.”

“We can only save African elephants if China and Japan ban the ivory trade,” Thornton told me.

Today, ivory prices are at record highs, having tripled since that 2008 auction, up to around $1,500 a pound.

Stradiuarius made a few instruments inlaid with ebony and ivory round the edges.

Her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than milk, more ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire.

Gwynne thought her a creature of infinite possibilities, beside whom Isabel was a statue in ivory.

Of course, it was not smoke obscuring the moon, she decided; it was a lamp, upheld by an ivory figure—a lamp with a Chinese shade.

The Chinese possess marvellous skill in carving ivory, tortoiseshell, and wood.