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Were the tusk swords just strapped on? If so, I find it odd that displaying them would be controversial.

• rhcom2 7y ago
  FYI he said "conservation issues", not controversial. They're probably brittle and can't support their own weight safely.
  • will_pseudonym 7y ago
    Ah, thanks. It was confusing to me. Another word that I think might fit better would be, "preservation."
    • ithkuil 7y ago
      Perhaps that's yet another case where British English diverges a bit from American English. I didn't find an explicit quote, but for example look: there is this institute in UK called "institute of conservation" https://icon.org.uk/groups/archaeology/about-archaeological-conservation https://icon.org.uk/groups/archaeology/about-archaeological-...
  • pixelbash 7y ago
    In the natural history museum London fake ivory is used due to theft concerns (says as much on the signs), might be the same here?