No State may bar trade in a finished article containing ivory, bone, or baleen
What the document says“No State shall prohibit the interstate commerce, importation, sale, offer for sale, transfer, trade, barter, possession, or possession with the intent to sell, transfer, trade, or barter of marine mammal ivory or marine mammal bone or baleen incorporated under this title by an Alaska Native, into an authentic Alaska Native article of handicrafts and clothing.”
The paragraph is addressed to the States rather than to a federal officer. It lists the dealings a State may not prohibit: interstate commerce, importation, sale, offer for sale, transfer, trade, barter, possession, and possession with intent to sell, transfer, trade, or barter. The material covered is marine mammal ivory, as defined above, or marine mammal bone or baleen, and it has to have been incorporated by an Alaska Native into an authentic Alaska Native article of handicrafts and clothing.
What the document actually says“No State shall prohibit the interstate commerce, importation, sale, offer for sale, transfer, trade, barter, possession, or possession with the intent to sell, transfer, trade, or barter of marine mammal ivory or marine mammal bone or baleen incorporated under this title by an Alaska Native, into an authentic Alaska Native article of handicrafts and clothing.”
A state may not ban these crafts. It may not ban selling them or trading them. It may not ban holding them or bringing them in.
Baleen is the strainer in the mouth of some whales. The ivory, bone, or baleen has to be worked into a finished item. An Alaska Native has to have done that work. Only then does this rule cover it.
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