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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lena Hernandez<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 27, 2016 12:21 PM<br><b>To:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Alaskan Wood Experts Needed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I apologize for the cross posting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I need some help with an interesting one… I had a woman come in wanting to donate some “mastodon ivory” that her father had brought back from Alaska in 1941. She brought it in for me to look at and it definitely appears to be vegetable, rather than animal or mineral. I have attached some pictures to see if anyone can identify it. We aren’t taking it in, but she wants to learn what exactly it is that her father brought back all those years ago.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any help would be much appreciated!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lena<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lena Hernandez<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Collections Manager & Registrar<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>=============================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>I would definitely send the pics either to the Mammoth Site in SD (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mammothsite.com_&d=CwMFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=BIOqTgZWPYChp5wwFzy20bnKEIwuFWQxOyuk6PyCX0U&s=w-wsuLgRi3hxyd5nS_7cVIjynygg4FfVJvXXxVb7sZE&e=">http://mammothsite.com/</a>) or to J-P Cavigelli at the Tate </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>Geological Museum in Casper, WY (you can find contact info for both online). For what it’s worth, though, I don’t think it’s wood and would definitely lean toward the ivory hypothesis. Punky bone/ivory can look a lot like old wood, but it’s hard to say without touching the specimens directly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>W.</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>=============================================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Four Cats Press<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><img border=0 width=192 height=31 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D1E802.76B4E400" alt="4cats_outlook_sig"><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="mailto:FourCatsPress.com">FourCatsPress.com</a> | <a href="mailto:Editor@FourCatsPress.com">Editor@FourCatsPress.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>