일반명 : 매머드상아 펜던트(Woolly Mammoth Pendant)

학명 : Mammuthus primigenius

지질시대 : Late Pleistocene(50,000 years ago)

원산지 : Siberian tundra, Russia

 

The MAMMOTH TUSK sometimes is called mastodon task, fossilized tusk, wooly mammoth ivory, Russian ivory, Siberian ivory or Arctic ivory. Actually, mammoth tusk is fossilized ivory, which spent from 10 to 40 thousand years being trapped in the permafrost. The tusk, being a very valuable material, is used for exquisite jewelry, carved miniature sculpture like netsuke and other exclusive carving artworks. The prices for all those mammoth handcarvings are current local prices in Russian stores. This site is an attempt of making the beauty of Russian mammoth task talented artworks available not only in Russia, but for you also...