Ivory ancestral statue carved from tip of a hippopotamus tooth
- Made:
- 1871-1925 in Democratic Republic of Congo
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Ivory ancestral statue carved from tip of a hippopotamus tooth
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Ivory ancestral statue carved from tip of a hippopotamus tooth, female figure with hands raised to breasts, Baluba, Eastern Congo, 1871-1925
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A89925
- Materials:
- ivory, hippopotamus tooth
- type:
- statues
- credit:
- Pareyn, H.
