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Object Number
30-2-50/B4932
Display Title
Ton makan - ivory medicine horn
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Horn, ivory tusk, perforated with metal loop, other end woven fiber cap
Classification
- Container
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Babimbi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms
Cameroon, southern
Materials
Ivory, Metal, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 33.1 x 4.2 x 3.9 cm (13 1/16 x 1 5/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
30-2-50/B-4932
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