Posted for Xausa

Selous ivory tends to run long and thin, as this pair, taken in 1972, indicates. They weighed in at +- 70 pounds, as I recall. This was a memorable day, with Ndofu in the morning and Chui in the evening. Still that photograph of the "100 pounder" looks a little odd, as though the tusk didn't fit the lip, but I suppose you had to be there. My 96 pounder had a much thicker diameter at the lip, but it was taken in Keyna.