Tusk
Kongo artist · ca. 1860
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Tusk
Kongo artist · 1861
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Tusk
National Museum of African Art record supplies dimensions, maker, date, medium, geography, accession number, credit line, restrictions/rights CC0, and metadata usage CC0. The archived source asset merges the three Smithsonian Web3D high GLB components for 74-20-1 into one 450,000-face GLB. The public preview isolates the carved tusk component from the Smithsonian Web3D package so support geometry does not dominate the gallery card.
- Maker
- Kongo artist
- Date
- 1861
- Place
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Material
- Ivory, wood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 34.4 x 13.5 x 13.5 cm (13 9/16 x 5 5/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
- Current collection
- National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
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Carved by a Kongo artist in 1861, this relief follows the taper and curve of the ivory tusk. Its design changes as the curved surface is viewed from different angles.
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- Maker
- Kongo artist
- Date
- 1861
- Place
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Material
- Ivory, wood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 34.4 x 13.5 x 13.5 cm (13 9/16 x 5 5/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
- Current collection
- National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
- Rights
- CC0 1.0
Related exhibitions
This work appears in
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