Ivory
Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally elephants') and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks. The chemical structure of the teeth and tusks of mammals is the same, regardless of the species of origin. The trade in certain teeth and tusks other than elephant is well established and widespread; therefore, "ivory" can correctly be used to describe any mammalian teeth or tusks of commercial interest which are large enough to be carved or scrimshawed.Ivory has been valued since ancient times in art or manufacturing for making …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English
IQAir, a Switzerland-based company working on air quality technology, released this report on March 19, 2024. It gives an overview of population weighted air quality data for the year 2023 …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 February 2024 English
In their 2024 working paper "Sexist Textbooks," Lee Crawfurd, Christelle Saintis-Miller and Rory Todd, researchers with the Center for Global Development, Washignton D.C., investigate gender bias in textbooks from 34 …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 20 March 2023 English
The World Happiness Report 2023 has been published by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a global initiative of the United Nations. It was released on March 20, 2023, United Nations …
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Freer Gallery of Art · 2023
Seated female figure, posed frontally. She has four arms, two hold attributes (a manuscript and a rosary), one in the boon-giving gesture, the forth broken. Crowned and bejewelled, the image …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2022 English
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groups such as the Nzema and Bono (Ghana and the Ivory Coast), Ewe (Ghana and Togo), Yoruba (Nigeria and …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 25 April 2022 English
The Sahariya Adivasis of Bagcha village in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district will be displaced to make a home for the African cheetah – a move fraught with livelihood loss and …
clearly lays down in section 49B that any trade in ivory, even imports, is strictly prohibited. Namibia, … unless India supports a delisting of the ban on ivory under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered …
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities · 23 February 2022 Swedish
Gåva av dr. Gideon Lindgren. Varit förväxlad med OM-1969-0141 Kompletterad med hjälp av Statens Konstsamlingars tillväxt och förvaltning och Östasiatiska museet och vänförenings årsböcker. Ganesha, skulptur i elfenben. Ganesha, sittande …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2021 English
This report was published by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in December 2021. It outlines the state of children’s rights and the threats they face in relation to climate …
she shares with her mother and two sisters in Ivory Park, an informal settlement on the outskirts …
LC: Library of Congress · 2021 English
Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-73). Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (National Investment Promotion and Facilitation Agency, India, www site, viewed on February 1, 2022).
making, painting, tattooing, pottery, smithy and ivory works are also practiced by them. Their style and … woven on this bag. It is also ornamented with ivory and bird's feathers. The Wancho men wear different …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 10 July 2020 English
(Chapter 7). The report also examines the global flow of money created from the illegal trade of ivory and rhino horn (Chapter 8). …
flows from the trade in ivory and rhinoceros horn 107 Acknowledgements The World … tiger) Rowan Martin (ivory) Frances Maplesden (rosewood) Joao Salguiero (ivory, pangolin) Rebeca Sandoval … (eels) Daniel Stiles (ivory, rhino, pangolin, tiger) George Wittemyer (ivory) Graphic design, cartography … first publication, including those for rosewood, ivory, and pangolins. As in the previous Report, this … last few years, detection of large quantities of ivory and pangolin scales in the same shipment indicate …
