When the elephant-ivory trade was banned worldwide in 1989 many traders and carvers expected mammoth tusks to satisfy the chinese appetite for ivory .
在1989年全球象牙交易被禁止之时,许多交易商和雕刻师都打算用猛犸象牙来满足中国人的象牙需求。
And she thought they must have been immigrants , italian stone carvers probably , unremembered , artists anonymous of the early century , buried in the sky .
她想他们一定是移民,可能就是从未被人记住的意大利石匠,这些上世纪的无名艺术家的名字掩埋在了云间。
Growing consumer demand for ivory , says the cites report , is reflected in the steady rise in the wholesale price paid for illegal raw ivory by carvers and manufacturers .
Karp surmises that the carvers based their art on each other , on their sweethearts , and on other new york characters .
卡普猜测那些雕刻师的艺术灵感来自于他们的同行、相好、和纽约其他各色人等。
The objects are presented in chronological order , which allows the viewer to observe how sculptors and carvers slowly learned to choose and prepare tusks and bones for the images they wanted to make .