What do people make out of ivory?

Answer 1

Tagua Nut , fruit of the ivory-nut palm ( Phytelephas macrocarpa ), which flourishes in tropical America from Paraguay to Panama. The female palms bear large woody, burrlike fruits, each containing several seeds about the size of hen's eggs. The immature seeds are gelatinous and edible. These are the ivory nuts, white or cream in color and very hard. Known in the trade also as vegetable ivory, the substance is used as a substitute for ivory and has long been carved into curios for tourists. Its commercial value originated in the mid-19th cent. when African ivory began to grow scarce. Tagua became a commodity of considerable importance, great quantities being exported to the United States and Europe for the manufacture of buttons and other small articles. It was largely supplanted by less expensive synthetic materials, although the demand has been rising in recent years. Tagua is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Liliopsida, order Arecales, family Palmae.

I have many that I use as Finials for wood turned boxes, they are a amazing egg sized nut.

* http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-tagua.html

** Ivory is a natural substance grown by animals like elephants. It is their tusks that they grow.

Piano Keys, sculptures.

Answer 2

Misery. It is illegal and cruel to hunt elephants for their ivory and leave them to die horribly.

Elephants are not the only source of Ivory. Ivory comes from other sources such as whales teeth, walrus tusks, hippos tusks and the tusks of wild boars. Natural Ivory is still used for numerous things like jewelry, masks, statues, buttons, art work such as scrimshaw, the handles of knives, daggers, swords and also for accent inlays for numerous other items. The Alaskan Eskimos still harvest and use natural Ivory from whales and walrus for scrimshaw art work (carved tusks), jewelry etc.

The Ivory from wild boar tusks is still used today in native American jewelry, and is legal to buy and sell in the US providing it is obtained from a legal boar hunt.

NOTE:

Most people believe Elephant hunting is illegal (worldwide) and become annoyed with anyone who suggests the contrary.FACT- Elephant hunting is allowed in African countries where their populations are stable, adequately protected and well managed. Perhaps of all endangered species, African elephants are the least likely to disappear because of what they are - they are the last surviving mega fauna of the world and the biggest threat they face is human encroachment into their habitat, not from managed and controled hunting..

Elephant hunting is legal In Zimbabwe,In Botswana (whose herds number over 200,000 elephants),In North-east Namibia,In Tanzania and recently Zambia started hunting elephants in two regions of their country.

Answer 3

Tooth and tusk ivory can be carved right into a substantial kind of shapes and objects. Examples of modern-day carved ivory items