Loango carved tusk
Gallery Location
Not on View
Maker
Unidentified Vili artist
Medium
Carved ivory
Geography
Loango Province, Republic of the Congo
Date
late 19th, early 20th century
Dimensions
78.7 × 7.5 × 5.5 cm
Object number
959.216
Cataloguer
Silvia Forni
ROM Staff, 2008 to 2022
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: Global Africa
Bibliography
This ivory tusk features a long procession of people in different attire forming a long spiraling procession that covers the entire surface. This type of carved tusk is typical of the tradition developed in the Kingdom of Loango along the Congo coast at the end of the 19th century, mostly directed to European customers increasingly present in the area.
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