Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1917 — Curious Jewel Box. [ARTICLE]

Curious Jewel Box.

▲ curious jewel box made of fossil Ivory by the natives of Siberia Is on exhibition at the Museum of Natural History 11 New York, says the Christian Herald. The sides and top are composed of flat pieces of Ivory and are carefully fitted together, the corners being dovetailed. They have carved in them scenes of the northland, the front side representing a hunter returning from the chase riding a reindeer. The box Is made f rbm the tusks of mammoths that have been buried for ages beneath the ice in Siberia. Some of these tusks weigh from 200 to 800 pounds. Elephants’ tusks furnished the Ivory for the Jews. Solomon made his throne of IL