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Horn (animal part)
| Object Number: | 2014-13-8 |
| Current Location: | Collections storage |
| Culture: | Arabic (uncertain) |
| Provenience: | Sudan Khartoum |
| Section: | African |
| Materials: | Ivory Leather |
| Length: | 95.6cm |
| Width: | 15.2cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Franklin Institute, 2014 |
| Other Number | 34 - Franklin Institute Number L-222-8 - Old Loan Number A324 - Seder Number A325? - Seder Number |
Description
Curved laterally 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
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