Longitudinal section of walrus tusk. Modified upper canine. [DCF Court Team 5/12/2002]

Collection type: Object
Description: Longitudinal section of walrus tusk. Modified upper canine. [DCF Court Team 5/12/2002]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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 Walrus Ivory Tooth Animal
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.3.4.2B
Research and responses: This was provenanced under England in the geographical card catalogue [AP 19/06/2006]
Associated publications: Ilustrated in Illustrated in black and white as Plate VIII in Pictures of Ivory and other Animal Teeth, Bone and Antler by T. K. Penniman (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Occasional Paper on Technology, 5). The illustration is captioned as follows: 'WALRUS TUSK - longitudinal section x2' [JU 29/10/2014] See 1942.3.4 .1 B for transverse section. [MJD 21/06/2012]

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