Tusk
29-93-18
From: Zaire | Maritime Congo | Congo
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 29-93-18 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Kongo |
| Provenience | Zaire | Maritime Congo | Congo |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Elephant Ivory |
| Technique | Carved |
| Iconography | Hunt | Hunter | Crocodile | Elephant | Coconut Tree | Chief | Hammock | Rider | Horse | Wrestling | Woman | Baboon |
| Description | Carved Elephant Tusk on which are represented hunting scenes (with a hunter caught by a crocodile, another tossed by an elephant), a man climbing a coconut tree, a chief carried in a hammock, a European rider whose mount is apparently emulating Balaam's ass, caravan of enslaved persons, wrestling bouts, a woman waylaid by a baboon, etc. |
| Length | 54.3 cm |
| Width | 18.5 cm |
| Depth | 6 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from the Estate of George Byron Gordon, 1927 |
| Other Number | 059 - Cast Number |
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