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Elephant tusk, excavated from the wreck site of the VERGULDE DRAECK
c 1656
Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia
This elephant tusk was excavated from the Dutch East India Company ship VERGULDE DRAECK wrecked on Western Australia's coast in 1656.
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- Title: Elephant tusk, excavated from the wreck site of the VERGULDE DRAECK
- Date: c 1656
- Location: Nederland
- Type: Elephant tusk
- Significance: Associated with the second oldest Dutch shipwreck discovered on the Australian coast this elephant tusk is representative of European presence near the Australian continent in the 17th century.
- See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
- Medium: Ivory
- Dimensions: 1000 mm, 13.6 kg
- Credit line: ANMM Collection Transferred from Australian Netherlands Committee on Old Dutch Shipwrecks
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