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Object Number
83-14-50/30218
Display Title
Carved ivory box, human figures
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Bowl, tubular, scene of seated humans with snakes, 1 being stabbed at knee
Classification
- Bowl
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Angola
Additional Geographic Terms
Loando, Southwest Coast
Materials
Ivory, Wood, Elephant ivory
Dimensions
Overall: 7 x 6 x 4.7 cm (2 3/4 x 2 3/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
83-14-50/30218
Provenance
Collector
Mr. John B. Sparhawk
(1857)
Donor
Mrs. John B. Sparhawk
(1883)
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