Unit: 1 each
Dimensions: 5mm dia. X 18mm long
This clasp is made of hand carved and hand-polished Prehistoric Woolly Mammoth or Mastodon Ivory.
Woolly Mammoth and Mastodon Ivory is identified by a cross hatch pattern in the grains known as Schreger lines. Many fossil mammoth and mastodon tusks are often found exposed on eroding river banks in the interior of Alaska, Siberia and other Arctic regions. Ivory from the huge mastodon and mammoth can be as old as 200,000 years! The woolly mammoth tusk is distinguished by a very curved shape while the mastodon tusk follows a much straighter line. In Alaska, the mammoth and mastodon reached such a state of over development that their tusks were sometimes so large and heavy, they had to be pushed ahead as the beasts walked. Mastodon and mammoth tusks have been known to weigh 200-300 pounds and to be 10 feet long. The woolly mammoth is the official Alaska State fossil.
