Ivory ancestral figurine carved from the tip of an hippopotamus tooth
- Made:
- 1871-1925 in Democratic Republic of Congo
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Ivory ancestral figurine carved from the tip of an hippopotamus tooth, female, with hands raised to breasts, Manyema, East Congo, 1871-1925
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A89952
- Materials:
- ivory, hippopotamus tooth
- type:
- statues
- credit:
- Pareyn, H.
