Yoruba-style ivory armlets; Dahomey, from the first half of the Seventeenth Century; top one is 3 7/8 inches; bottom is 3 1/8 inches; Wieckmann Collection; Museum of Ulm, Germany.
Yoruba-style ivory armlets; Dahomey, from the first half of the Seventeenth Century; top one is 3 7/8 inches; bottom is 3 1/8 inches; Wieckmann Collection; Museum of Ulm, Germany.
Ivory mask; Edo peoples, probably Sixteenth Century; Benin, Nigeria; 10 ½ inches high; British Museum, London, U.K.
Horseman, Yoruba-style; Ogboni cult object; late Nineteenth Century; 21 inches high; British Museum, London, U.K.
Horseman, Yoruba-style; Ogboni cult object; late Nineteenth Century; 21 inches high; British Museum, London, U.K.
Kalukili Spoon; Lega Culture; Democratic Republic of Congo; late Nineteenth Century; 7 ½ x 1 ½ inches; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.
Fetish figure of mother and child; thought to show Portugeuse influence; ca. Seventeenth Century; Nigerian Museum, Lagos.
Ivory spoon; Sixteenth Century; Sierra Leone; Sapi-Portuguese; 8 7/8 inches long; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Saltcellar: Portugeuse figures; Mid-Fifteenth Century; Nigeria; Edo-peoples, court of Benin; 7 ½ inches high; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Waist ornament; ivory with copper studs; Eighteenth Century; 4 ½ inches long; Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, U.K.
Ivory tusk carved with figures and cartoons; Kongo People; Democratic Republic of Congo; late Nineteenth or Early Twentieth Century; 34.25 inches in length, British Museum, London, U.K.
