| Object Number |
AF2032 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Edo (Africa) | Bini |
| Provenience |
Nigeria | Benin Kingdom |
| Date Made |
19th century CE |
| Section |
African |
| Materials |
Ivory | Elephant Tusk |
| Technique |
Carved |
| Description |
Carved elephant tusk. Carved throughout with images of Oba with two supporters, fish-legged figure, leopard attacking animal, snakes, crocodiles,mudfish, chiefs, eben, and band of guilloche pattern at open end of tusk. Tip of tusk is burnt. |
| Length |
172.72 cm |
| Credit Line |
Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1912 |
| Other Number |
29191 - Dealer's Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Plass, Margaret B. "African Negro Sculpture: A Walk Through the Gallery." The University Museum Bulletin 21, no. 4. ( Dec 1957): 5-76. See: p. 26 |
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| Dorling Kindersley Limited. History of the World in 1,000 Objects. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2014. See: p. 263 |
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| Curnow, Kathy. Iyare! Splendor and Tension In Benin's Palace Theatre. 2016. See: p. 74, fig.106 |
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| Curnow, Kathy. Guide to the Benin Collection at the Penn Museum. Philadelphia: Questor | UPMAA, 2024. Page/Fig./Plate: 132 See: p. 36, fig. 38; p. 89, fig. 99; 95. fig. 103 |
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