One of two tusks, not identical but possibly a pair, carved all over in high relief with animal figures and human figures. [JP 2/10/2003]

Collection type: Object
Description: One of two tusks, not identical but possibly a pair, carved all over in high relief with animal figures and human figures. [JP 2/10/2003]
Long description: Some of the animal figures are anthropomorphised by being depicted wearing clothes or by undertaking activities such as fishing and holding tools such as a spoon or a walking stick. This occurs only on this tusk and not on 2002.91.11. The eyes of all of the figures have been inlaid with tiny circles of black ?horn. [JP 2/10/2003]
Geographical reference: Congo, Republic of
Africa > Central Africa > Congo, Republic of; Angola
Africa > Central Africa > Angola
Person: Field collector E.R. Jones; Field collector Mrs E.R. Jones; Field collector Evan Rhys Jones; Field collector Elizabeth Jones; PRM source H.B. Jones
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1915
Date collected: 1910 - 1915
Acquisition information: Donated: 2002
Materials and processes: Material Elephant Tooth Ivory Animal, Material Animal Horn, Process Carved, Process Inlaid
Dimensions: Diameter 52 mm base, Length 660 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2002.91.10
Research and responses: Full name of Dr E.R. Jones possibly Evan Rhys Jones, see records at Regent's Park College Angus Library and Archive which suggest he worked in Africa between 1910 and 1920 with his wife Elizabeth. They were Baptist missionaries and medical staff [AP 21/7/2016]

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