Unidentified
Staff
circa 17th-18th century
Category
Culture
Ijo
Place Made
Nigeria: Niger Delta Region
Materials
Ivory, pigment traces
Measurements
30 x 4 3/4 x 3 1/4 in (76.2 x 12.065 x 8.255 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Robert Gordy Fund, Françoise Billion Richardson African Art Fund, and African Art Deaccession Fund
Accession #
2016.9
Description
A richly carved ivory tusk portraying two superimposed figures: above, a seated female holding a child and wearing an elaborate headdress or hat and below, a kneeling male holding a musket and wearing a gun powder pouch across his torso. Both figures wear a ruff collar suggestive of a Portuguese ruff of the era.