Carved Elephant Tusk
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 May 1887
name: label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department of the Navy
notes: label: Notes
content: Listed on page 57 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans (Musical)".
label: Notes
content: From card: "Relief figures in a spiral procession. H. Lang in "Famous ivory treasures of a Negro [sic] king". The American Museum Journal 18 (1918): 529, fn. 1, refers to these tusks from Loango, and declares that they are made under the encouragement of white traders. Cleaned, see Restoration record 3-3-65."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Congo River, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019080
label: USNM Number
content: E128361-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Carving
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 56 cm