High End Native American Artifact Auction
Lot 300:
42" Rare Mastodon Tusk Found in Northern Missouri
42" Fossil Mastodon Tusk Found in Northern Missouri by Jeff Gower in 2009. The flood of 2008 was a great year for fossil hunting in areas where they are found. Minor floods in the following year lodged this tusk in a Willow thicket on a sand bar where Jeff and friends were camping that night. He was sent out to look for firewood (after dark without a light) and saw the end of the tusk sticking out of the sand. Thinking it was wood he pulled it out of the sand for the camp fire. When one of the other guys shined the light on it everyones jaws droped! That day Jeff had already found 9 arrowheads skunking the competition and was forced to walk behind the others for the next day while relic hunting….and he still found 3 more! It goes without saying tusks are extremely rare to find intact or even near intact. From our area it is the only one we are aware of that has been found nearly intact. It has approximately 5 inches of restoration on the tip (may be as little as 3 on one side where a section remained going closer to the tip). There are often Mammoth Tusks that come up for sale but Mastodon Tusks are a different deal. They are far more rare than the mammoth tusks. The length on this tusk is 42" straight line measurement from tusk end to tusk end. Following its curvature the measurement is around 45"
Condition: Ancient Authentic
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