It Is Difficult to Admire.....

the intricately hand-carved ivory tusks of a formerly living majestic mammal depicting a long dead asian empress and emperor when smaller humans are loudly whispering come here come here come here (and i kid you not one of those smaller humans JUST NOW hollered come here come here as i was typing those very words)

but i digress....

i'm thinking the enormous, majestic, _living_ mammal might have been proud to sport those amazingly carved tusks, if only someone had been nice enough to ask.

go see these tusks at the Texas Tech Museum. I promise it will be worth it.

I can't even find a photo online that does these two magnificently carved tusks an iota of justice.