Horn (animal part)

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Arabic (uncertain)

Sudan
Khartoum

African

Ivory
Leather

Curved laterrally blown ivory tusk with leather wrapping throughout length except for the lozenge-shaped embouchure. Leather is red in color with raised Arabic Lettering on one side; stitched together on inside curve of tusk. Ivory ring midpoint around tusk. Poor condition - leather torn in places, open end of tusk badly broken and wired together again, pieces missing

Loaned by the Franklin Institute Science Museum