- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Transverse section of hippopotamus ivory - lower canine. [FB 01/04/2014]
- Person
- Maker Lomax Palaeo-Botanical Laboratories
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Lomax Palaeo-Botanical Laboratories
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1942
- Date collected
- By 1942
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1942
- Materials and processes
- Material Hippo Ivory Tooth Animal
- Dimensions
- Length: max 75 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1942.3.3.2B
- Associated publications
- Such microsections were taken as part of the publication of 'Pictures of Ivory and other Animal Teeth, Bone and Antler' [PRM Occasional Paper no 5], see Annual Report 1952 [AP 18/4/2002]
Search terms: Animalia, Specimen, Animal Part
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