Donor Name:

U. S. Department of the Navy  Search this

Length:

56 cm

Object Type:

Carving

Place:

Congo River, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa

Accession Date:

18 May 1887

Notes:

Listed on page 57 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans (Musical)".

From card: "Relief figures in a spiral procession. H. Lang in "Famous ivory treasures of a Negro [sic] king". The American Museum Journal 18 (1918): 529, fn. 1, refers to these tusks from Loango, and declares that they are made under the encouragement of white traders. Cleaned, see Restoration record 3-3-65."

Record Last Modified:

15 Jan 2021

Specimen Count:

1

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

019080

USNM Number:

E128361-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3dd6ee961-aa7a-4ad4-8430-2cb7b952b9cd

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8334974