Richard,
Any chance you could run you run this appeal for help with
identification ahead of Weird Weekend?
http://mattsalusbury.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/can-anyone-help-identify-this-tooth.html
They can also contact me via @Pyg_Eleph on twitter
Many thanks
MATT SALUSBURY
Above is a sketch of "a tooth of enigmatic origin ("une dent d'origine énigmatique" in the original French). It was obtained by Baron Maurice de Rothschild and Henri Neuville (he worked on the preparation of specimens at the National Museum of National History, Paris, and was a comparative anatomist and by some accounts an anthropologist too.) It was bought from Indian ivory merchants in the ivory market at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1905. Its discoverers do refer to it as a "tusk" ("defense"), but they hesitate to describe it even as a tusk in most of their write-up, which is in the Archives de Zoologie Experimentale et Generale, 4th series, volume VII, October 1907.
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