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FROM: Patricia Gibson <[removed]@fred.tnrdlib.bc.ca>
REC'D: 12/20/00, 3:24 PM

Greetings All!
I received this request from our (stumped) librarian-sleuth extraordinaire.
Her patron is looking for a book with a title something like "Red Ivory" or
"Red Ivories." It is not "Blood Ivory" by Andrew McCoy. The one the patron
is looking for is of the same style as the McCoy book but less gory. The
book apparently deals with the area in Africa where elephants shed their
tusks. Does anyone out there have any ideas? Thanks in advance and Merry
Christmas to you.

Patricia Gibson
Kamloops Public

FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 12/20/00, 4:09 PM

Here are three possibilities, unfortunately, none of them have
any subject headings, so I am not sure if they fit the description.

Red Ivory / Author: Channel, A. R. Publication: Dobson, 1964
Doc. Type: Book

Red ivory. Author: Smith, Walton Hall, b. 1898. Publication:
New York, A.L. Burt 1928 Doc. Type: Book

Red ivory. Author: Catherall, Arthur, 1906- Publication:
Philadelphia, Macrae Smith 1964 Doc. Type: Book  

Good luck,

Barry

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On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Patricia Gibson wrote:

> Greetings All!
> I received this request from our (stumped) librarian-sleuth extraordinaire.
> Her patron is looking for a book with a title something like "Red Ivory" or
> "Red Ivories." It is not "Blood Ivory" by Andrew McCoy. The one the patron
> is looking for is of the same style as the McCoy book but less gory. The
> book apparently deals with the area in Africa where elephants shed their
> tusks. Does anyone out there have any ideas? Thanks in advance and Merry
> Christmas to you.
>
> Patricia Gibson
> Kamloops Public
>
>
>
>
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FROM: "Kathy Loucks" <[removed]@cml.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 12/21/00, 10:58 AM

Free-associating in the way our patrons sometimes seem to do, could this be The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy?

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 12/21/00, 1:22 PM

At 01:07 PM 12/20/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Greetings All!
>I received this request from our (stumped) librarian-sleuth extraordinaire.
>Her patron is looking for a book with a title something like "Red Ivory" or
>"Red Ivories." It is not "Blood Ivory" by Andrew McCoy. The one the patron
>is looking for is of the same style as the McCoy book but less gory. The
>book apparently deals with the area in Africa where elephants shed their
>tusks. Does anyone out there have any ideas? Thanks in advance and Merry
>Christmas to you.
>
>Patricia Gibson
>Kamloops Public

I don't know the book, but for what it's worth, I suspect the "area in
Africa where elephants shed their tusks" is a reference to the mythical
Elephants' Graveyard, supposedly an unknown spot where wounded elephants
instinctively go to die (which therefore is loaded with ivory) and
which was eagerly sought by (usually unscrupulous) ivory hunters in
a number of pulpy African adventure books and movies in the first
half of the 20th century. There is a recent mystery called ELEPHANTS'
GRAVEYARD by Karin McQuillan, about which I know nothing.

Offhand, I don't believe elephants in the real world *do* ever shed
tusks, though they may get them broken in fights etc. (And of course
they don't really seek out a sacred-to-elephants-spot to die in,
either.) None of which would stop someone from using either for
fiction, of course.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

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