Carved Elephant Tusk 1
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Jun 1901
name: label: Donor Name
content: Adm Robert W. Shufeldt
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved all over with folk figures. Probably produced for sale to Europeans. See H. Lang, "Famous ivory treasures of a Negro King." "American Museum Journal" 18 (Nov. 1918): 527-552. Ref to Loango carvings on p. 259. See also W. P. Fagg, "Vergessene Negerkunst: Afro-Portugiesisches Elfenbein" (Prague, 1959) p. xix. 11/3/66; loaned to Cult. Hist. (MIT) Returned 2/13/81."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Gabon River, Gabon, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 038151
label: USNM Number
content: E211180-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Carving
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 47 cm