[Nhcoll-l] Alaskan Wood Experts Needed

[Lena Hernandez]

Thank you everyone!  It looks so different from the few pieces that we have in our collection that I would definitely not thought it mastodon ivory. Learn something new every day!

I appreciate the replies as well as the references where she might be able to follow up.

Regards,
Lena

Lena Hernandez
Collections Manager & Registrar

Museum of Science & History
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Hi all,

I apologize for the cross posting.

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.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Lena

Lena Hernandez
Collections Manager & Registrar

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I would definitely send the pics either to the Mammoth Site in SD (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mammothsite.com_&d=CwIFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=_Y6AouAsl6-LF08M-A0TVqRYFKpv2yD5TRNfiGpG3H0&s=bgOxlMTE3Nmcbxmg2johh7ZjLS_iqoTTSmbM5UCl4-4&e= ) or to J-P Cavigelli at the Tate 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.

W.

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