[Nhcoll-l] Alaskan Wood Experts Needed

Wed Jul 27 13:02:06 EDT 2016

Thank you again to everyone, I love how helpful everyone is and how much I can learn from you all.  The pieces went back with their owner so I won’t be able to look at the Schreger lines, but I will send the resources you all shared along to her.

Thanks!

Lena Hernandez
Collections Manager & Registrar

Museum of Science & History
1025 Museum Circle
Jacksonville, FL 32207
(904)396-6674 x212
lhernandez at themosh.org<mailto:lhernandez at themosh.org>

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From: Mariana Di Giacomo [mailto:maru.digi at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 12:50 PM
To: Hawks, Catharine
Cc: Loring, Stephen; Pickering, Felicia; Krupnik, Igor; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu; Lena Hernandez
Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Alaskan Wood Experts Needed

I agree with Cathy on using that website. Elephant, mammoth and mastodons even have different angles in their Schreger lines, so it can potentially be identified to that level.

Best,
Mariana

MSc. Mariana Di Giacomo
PhD candidate University of Delaware
Pre-doctoral fellow Smithsonian NMNH

2016-07-27 12:45 GMT-04:00 Hawks, Catharine <HawksC at si.edu<mailto:HawksC at si.edu>>:
For ID, try  National Fish & Wildlife Service Forensic Laboratory – Identification Guide for Ivory and Ivory Substitutes. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.lab.fws.gov_ivory.php&d=CwIGaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=oAJsM8stKS_yuuqpb8SCbyolbOOU6SkH5hG3eShEwoM&s=d5YNRYQ7ZWJmMtcRFnjHx4acgYZkwRwRpEN2PI_v_z8&e= <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.lab.fws.gov_ivory.php&d=CwMFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=uNO5XlrpfmCu_UT6PVGtPcVszYWzaPW6dbvaTSWC_0E&s=6dcpSjsh283go-AArGCu_cZdnEBJA-Nh3hpu527LfyY&e=>

From: nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu>] On Behalf Of Loring, Stephen
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Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Alaskan Wood Experts Needed

It looks –almost certainly—to be mammoth ivory to me.

From: Pickering, Felicia
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 12:36 PM
To: Krupnik, Igor; Fitzhugh, William; Crowell, Aron
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Subject: FW: Alaskan Wood Experts Needed

See below and attached, in case anyone has any ideas.

Felicia

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Subject: FW: Alaskan Wood Experts Needed
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Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Alaskan Wood Experts Needed

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

Museum of Science & History
1025 Museum Circle
Jacksonville, FL 32207
(904)396-6674 x212<tel:%28904%29396-6674%20x212>
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