Elephant and mammoth tusk ivory comes from the two modified upper incisors of extant and extinct members of the order Proboscidea.
In elephants, the upper incisors are modified into curved tusks (unlike with Narwhals, where it is a canine that develops into a straight and twisted tusk).
John Derian’s shop in the Lower East Side features artisans and collaborators such as Leanne Shapton, Benoît Astier de Villatte and Ivan Pericoli (owners of Astier de Villatte), Hugo Guinness, Natalie Lété, Livia Cetti and Stephanie Housley (founder of Coral & Tusk).
The film was entered into competition at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland, where it was seen by Mark Tusk from Miramax who, convinced Pitt would become a film star, urged Harvey Weinstein to make the unprecedented step of purchasing the rights to a film he had not yet seen.
Also on display on the 2nd floor is a rare black (in fact reddish-brown) elephant tusk said to have been offered to a Nan king over 300 years ago by the Khün lord of Chiang Tung (Kengtung).
Her second play, Tusk Tusk premiered in the downstairs teatre at the Royal Court in March 2009 directed by Jeremy Herrin.
Bugge proposed that the -toskr element is a reformation of the Old English word tūsc (Old Frisian tusk) and, in turn, that the element Rata- represents Old English ræt ("rat").
The copperplate of Kaesava Sana records that the king Vallal Sena carried away, from the enemies, the goddesses of fortune on palanquins (Shivaka), which elephant tusk staff supported; and also states that Vallal Sena's son, Lakshman Sena (1179–1205), erected pillars of victory and sacrificial posts at Benaras, Allahbad, and Adon Coast of the South Sea.
Tusk initially formed a solo unit, with ex-Zi:Kill drummer Tetsu and Kyoji Yamamoto of Bow Wow supporting him.