THIS LISTING IS ONLY FOR A PAIR OF EARRINGS!
Triangle 1⅛” x ¾” -
This material is older than history. The woolly mammoth fossil ivory in these earrings was excavated legally in Alaska ancient tusk material that lay preserved in the permafrost for ten thousand years or more, recovered through licensed excavation and documented for legal sale and use. It is not elephant ivory. It is not modern animal ivory of any kind. It is fossil material prehistoric, legal, and entirely irreplaceable.
Each triangular cabochon measures 1⅛” x ¾”, warm cream and ivory across its surface with the fine crosshatch Schreger pattern visible in the material the distinctive diamond-angle lines that identify genuine mammoth ivory to any trained eye and cannot be replicated or faked. The color is the color of old bone and winter light warm, quiet, and luminous in a way that no other material quite achieves.
The settings honor what they hold. Clean .925 sterling silver triangular bezels frame each piece without competition, while four hand-applied granulation balls cluster at the base small, precise, entirely handmade. Sterling shepherd hooks complete the earrings with easy natural movement. At 1⅛” these pieces wear with quiet authority the kind that comes not from size or color but from knowing exactly what you are wearing and where it came from.
Details:
Stone: Wooly Mammoth Tusk · Origin: Alaska · Matrix: Cream · Metal: Custom Sterling Silver · Earring Setting: 1⅛” x ¾” · One of a Kind with Makers Mark
Made in Taos by a Taosena.
Some Jewelry is made. Some is found. At Fire & Stone, it's both.
Woolly Mammoth Tusk - Alaska
There is no other material in jewelry quite like it. Woolly mammoth tusk is ancient ivory not excavated from an elephant, not harvested from a living animal, but recovered from the permafrost of Alaska, Siberia, and the Yukon, where it has rested undisturbed for ten thousand to forty thousand years. What emerges from the frozen ground is something transformed: ivory that has mineralized over millennia, absorbing iron, manganese, and the chemistry of the earth around it, turning from white to deep cream, amber, caramel, sienna, and sometimes a rare, striking blue-grey or brown-black. No two pieces share the same color. No two share the same grain.
The woolly mammoth Mammuthus primigenius roamed the cold steppes of the northern hemisphere through the Pleistocene epoch, disappearing from the Alaskan and Siberian mainland roughly ten thousand years ago, with the last isolated populations surviving on Wrangel Island until around 1650 BCE. The tusks now surfacing from eroding riverbanks and coastal bluffs in Alaska are the natural remains of animals that have been gone longer than recorded human history. Collecting them is legal, ethical, and regulated a rare material that carries no harm in its sourcing.
The material itself is dense and workable, taking a smooth, warm polish unlike any stone. It holds fine detail beautifully in metalwork. Up close, the Schreger lines a crosshatch pattern unique to proboscidean ivory are often still visible, a kind of biological fingerprint left by the animal itself.
To wear mammoth tusk is to carry something genuinely prehistoric. Not a reproduction. Not an homage. The actual thing pulled from Alaskan ground, shaped by Taos hands, set in silver.
