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Object Number
2004.24.8491
Display Title
Intricately carved ivory elephant tusk
Descriptions
Object Description
Carved Tusk. Cameroon, Africa. George Schwab, 1929-30
Subject
- Ivory
- Elephant
- tusk
- Symbol
- Decorated
- engraved
- Carved
- Ethnographic
Department
Photographic
Date
1929
Artist
George Schwab
Culture
- Equatorial Bantu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Cameroon
Materials
Negative, nitrate
Dimensions
Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)
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