Object Number | AF2032 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Edo (Africa) | Bini |
Provenience | Nigeria | Benin Kingdom |
Date Made | 19th century CE |
Section | African |
Materials | Ivory | Elephant Tusk |
Technique | Carved |
Description | Carved elephant tusk. Carved throughout with images of Oba with two supporters, fish-legged figure, leopard attacking animal, snakes, crocodiles,mudfish, chiefs, eben, and band of guilloche pattern at open end of tusk. Tip of tusk is burnt. |
Length | 172.72 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1912 |
Other Number | 29191 - Dealer's Number |
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