Tusk

29-94-23

From: Cameroon | Grasslands

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 29-94-23
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Bamileke
Provenience Cameroon | Grasslands
Section African
Materials Elephant Ivory
Technique Carved
Description

For style of carving, especially elephant's heads, combination of realistic elements into decoartive patterns, trellis designs, etc., see P. Germann, Das plastische Kunstgewerbe im Graslande von Kamerun, Leipzig, 1911, especially figs. 27, 28, 37, 38, 48, 49, and 60.

Length 194 cm
Credit Line Received from various sources, pre-1929

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