FROM CARD: "AN OLD SHEET IN THE REGISTER'S FILE (CORRESPONDENCE AND RECORDS) STATES: AFRICAN WAR HORN MADE OF THE TUSK OF THE ELEPHANT'. 'PRESENTED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY BY DR. J. W. LUGENBEEL. MAY 30TH 1846' (J.C.E. OCT 28,1951) REF: "CATALOGUE OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE...", 1855, PAGE 40, THIS SPECIMEN IS LISTED IN CASE 29, N THE LOWER SHELF. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1892; PL. 97, FIGS. 10, 11; P.438 ALSO REPT, 1896; PL 68, FIGS 10-11; P.552. LOANED TO RENWICK 8/19/81. RETURNED 1983." NOTE: MICROFILM IN THE REGISTRAR'S FILES OF ACCESSION 135 FOR THE YEAR 1861 LISTS THE MATERIAL DONATED TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE BY DR. J. W. LUGENBEEL ON 30 MAY 1846. THE LIST INCLUDES A WAR HORN AND A CASE FOR THE KORAN. BOTH ITEMS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY CATALOGED UNDER CATALOG NUMBER 4793 [although the ledger book only lists the horn). THE KORAN CASE WAS ASSIGNED THE SUFFIX 'B' TO DIFFERENTIATE IT FROM THE HORN. This ceremonial horn is illustrated and discussed in Hart, W. A., "Early-Nineteenth-Century Chiefs' Horns from Coastal Liberia," African Arts, Vol. 32, No. 3. (Autumn, 1999), pp. 62-67+96. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0001-9933%28199923%2932%3A3%3C62%3AECHFCL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T . See pp. 64 - 65. Hart concludes that objects presented by Lugenbeel in 1846 to the National Institute were probably collected during his time in Liberia, 1843 - 1849.
Listed on page 59 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans (Musical)".
