Woman’s elk tooth necklace, 1900s.
Elk-tooth jewelry totally used to be a Thing, and I only know this because a few weeks ago I watched an old movie in which the private-detective character, fairly late in the story, borrowed a police officer’s elk-tooth watch fob and put it in a fire to demonstrate that Teeth Don’t Burn and that’s why the dentist was killed and his x-rays stolen (because the victim of the previous murder had been his patient and he might have identified him by his teeth.)
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