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...year-old Sarouk, originally cost $32,000). There was all the flotsam & jetsam of a huge hotel: used umbrellas, 750 pairs of doormen's gloves, 742 cuspidors, red ties for bellboys (and electric tie pressers), wheelchairs and cribs, the flags of all nations, an elephant tusk. And there was Lot #3835: the stuffed head of Lucky Boy II, 4-H champion steer of 1941, which a Wilmette woodworker snapped up for $25 (he also paid $12,250 for the 14 ornate chandeliers...
...uncommon. One father killed his young family. Dr. Grenfell had to teach them how to live. He set them to work planting turnips, cabbages, tomatoes for protection against scurvy, established cooperative stores, built trade schools, orphanages, imported sheep and goats. started home industries-mink breeding, rug-making, walrus-tusk carving...
...find as much difference between nations. ..." Lanky, ebullient Director d'Harnoncourt showed the difference in seven cunningly designed rooms: fine basketry and feather-weaving by the Pomos and Paiutes of California and Nevada; weaving and silver work by the Hopis, Navahos, Apaches of the Southwest; bone and tusk carving by the Chinook and other fishermen of the Northwest; magnificent work with buffalo and elk skins by the Sioux, Blackfoot and Crow tribes of the plains; beautifully carved wooden ware of the Eastern Iroquois...
...Walrus tusks. In 1922 Dr. Groves examined a farm boy with a deep cavity in the upper end of his thighbone. No scrap of human bone that Dr. Groves could safely snip from the boy was large enough to fill the space, so he procured a piece of ivory from a walrus tusk, carved it to order, planted it in the cavity. Last October, said Dr. Groves, "a fresh radiogram [Xray] showed that the ivory graft had remained without change as a strut round which human bone had been deposited." Since the operation the patient "has never had any disability...
Religious ceremonial objects in the current exhibit include a six foot elephant tusk, carved in relief with richly dressed figures of kings and elephant heads; a huge, leaf-shaped sword, or ebere; many bells, cast in the shape of human heads; and a wooden rattle, five feet long, used by the priests to invoke the spirits at religious ceremonies...