<div dir="ltr">Ok, I'll jump in. It's proboscidean ivory, not wood.<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#38761d" size="1"><b>Barry W. Baker, <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.wildlifeforensicscience.org_become-2Dcertified_&d=CwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=VniS_tjLnAps2pUKXSKcF1Zj5nv2YEwIBCxVaFP_W9U&s=nuw_wIZls13Dl6Bi-j5CYPA8Gt1Xd_7bVxhtXIroPes&e=" target="_blank">CWFS</a>, <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.rpanet.org_&d=CwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=VniS_tjLnAps2pUKXSKcF1Zj5nv2YEwIBCxVaFP_W9U&s=DOUR-kPTZB3CG_llbCjRH5jmP56kRhXFtxsoV5IeVss&e=" target="_blank">RPA</a><br></b></font></div><div><font size="1"><font color="#38761d"><b>Senior Forensic Scientist - Morphology</b></font><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><br></font></div><div><b><font size="1">USFWS National Fish & Wildlife Forensics Laboratory<br></font></b></div><div><b><font size="1">Morphology Section</font></b></div><div><b><font size="1">1490 East Main Street</font></b></div><div><b><font size="1">Ashland, Oregon 97520-1310 USA</font></b></div><div><b><font size="1"><br></font></b></div><div><font size="1"><b>tel (direct): 541.488.6528</b><br></font></div><div><b><font size="1">tel (front office): 541.482.4191</font></b></div><div><b><font size="1">fax 541.482.4989</font></b></div><div><b><font size="1"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.lab.fws.gov&d=CwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=VniS_tjLnAps2pUKXSKcF1Zj5nv2YEwIBCxVaFP_W9U&s=vwO0QP54Qcgp2jqbqNJqMEyO08vHQgubRLUuR7joRi8&e=" target="_blank">www.lab.fws.gov</a></font></b></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Hawks, Catharine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:HawksC@si.edu" target="_blank">HawksC@si.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</span>National Fish & Wildlife Service Forensic Laboratory – <i>Identification Guide for Ivory and Ivory Substitutes</i>.
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Loring, Stephen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 27, 2016 12:45 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Pickering, Felicia <<a href="mailto:PICKERIF@si.edu" target="_blank">PICKERIF@si.edu</a>>; Krupnik, Igor <<a href="mailto:KRUPNIKI@si.edu" target="_blank">KRUPNIKI@si.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> '<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a>' <<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a>>; '<a href="mailto:lhernandez@themosh.org" target="_blank">lhernandez@themosh.org</a>' <<a href="mailto:lhernandez@themosh.org" target="_blank">lhernandez@themosh.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nhcoll-l] Alaskan Wood Experts Needed<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">It looks –almost certainly—to be mammoth ivory to me.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 27, 2016 12:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Krupnik, Igor; Fitzhugh, William; Crowell, Aron<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Loring, Stephen<span class=""><br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: Alaskan Wood Experts Needed<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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Date: Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:22 PM<br>
Subject: FW: Alaskan Wood Experts Needed<br></span>
To: "Felicia Pickering <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lena Hernandez<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 27, 2016 12:17 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Alaskan Wood Experts Needed<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I apologize for the cross posting.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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