Scrimshaw is the art of etching on different types of ivory. The types of ivory used is woolly mammoth ivory, which comes from the tusks of the extinct woolly mammoth, fossil walrus ivory, which is centuries old ivory unearthed by the coastal eskimo from old village sites, and new walrus ivory, which can only be worked by the eskimo. Very labor intensive, there are few who still practice this art.
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