Ivory tusk
Category
Ivory and bone
Date
1930 - 1937
Materials
Ivory
Measurements
57 mm (D)
Place of origin
Africa
Order this imageCollection
Nuffield Place, Oxfordshire
NT 1651181.1
Summary
Tusk. First of three tusks. Carved at one end with a free standing crocodile, and on the solid section a snake.
Provenance
Collection William R. Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, by bequest to Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 1963, by transfer to National Trust, Nuffield Place, 2011.
Marks and inscriptions
; ; ; ; (not on this tusk)