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Prehistoric carving of the Mammoth

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Incised upon a piece of mammoth ivory, are outlines of the mammoth itself. The original, rather more than nine inches in length, is at Paris in the museum of the Jardin des plantes.

Author
Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval
By William Maskell
Published in 1875
Available from gutenberg.org
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