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Object Number
67-9-50/165
Display Title
Carved ivory
Descriptions
Object Description
Tip of an elephant's tusk - carved. Carved ivory
See Conservation Record for additional details on material identification
Inventory Description
Carving, ivory, hollow horn with knobbed human head top, ridged
Classification
- Carving
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Angola
Additional Geographic Terms
Loauda, Southwest
Materials
Hippopotamus ivory
Dimensions
Overall: 24.3 x 3.3 x 2.9 cm (9 9/16 x 1 5/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
67-9-50/165
Provenance
Donor
Boston Athenaeum
(1867)
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| |
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| |
| 17-41-50/B1633.2 | Ivory fetish medicine (masques) - 1 half |
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| |
| 17-41-50/B1638 | Ivory fetish medicine (masque) |
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| 17-41-50/B1639 | Ivory fetish medicine (masque) |
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| |
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|
Angola
| |
| 17-41-50/B1630 | Ivory fetish medicine (masques) |
Carving
|
Belgian Congo
| |
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Sculpture
|
Uganda
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