tusk

Its huge head holds a celebratory harness, and its curved tusks are painted with colorful designs.

With their thick coats, curved tusks, and towering size, they grazed the vast steppes that stretched across the northern hemisphere.

Somehow it rolled onto its side, and two long tusks swung into view.

One of the group “plunged her tusks up to the gums in the body of my Land-Rover . . . again she charged, and the Land-Rover was carried backwards at high speed for thirty-five yards.”

Items stolen from the Oakland museum included Native American baskets, jewelry, laptops, historic photographs and intricately carved ivory tusks.