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Inupiat shaman's figure.

Adolf of Nassau

medieval mirror case depicting Lancelot and Guinevere

Carved ivory ornaments. (Top) Breastplate, ivory, sennit. From Fiji. (Bottom) Necklace with eight human figures, sperm whale ivory, sennit. From Fiji. In the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, England.

Early Byzantine ivory. Diptych of Flavius Anastasius with the consul enthroned and circus scenes below, 517. In the Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 35.6 × 25.4 cm.

kneeling youth from Samos

Lega carved ivory figure

Dorset ivory amulet

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