Ivory ancestral figure carved from the tip of a hippopotamus tooth

Made:
1871-1925 in Democratic Republic of Congo
Ivory ancestral figure carved from the tip of a hippopotamus

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Ivory ancestral figure carved from the tip of a hippopotamus
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Ivory ancestral figure carved from the tip of a hippopotamus tooth, female, with hands raised to breasts, Manyema, Eastern Congo, 1871-1925

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A89951
Materials:
ivory, hippopotamus tooth
type:
statues
credit:
Pareyn, H.