[Cold Heart]

Mountie probably bought them from a lazy Eskimo. My understanding is that if the tusk had been harvested by an aborigine and carved into art work by aborigines that it would have some legal sale value.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I have read that some of their “art” is nothing but pencil sketches on the ivory to classify as “native art” so it can be shipped to others for reuse in other things by non-native people.