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 1651181.2
Summary
Tusk. Second of three tusks. Carved at one end with a free standing crocodile, at on the solid section a lizard. Inscribed.
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
inscribed (?) ; on tusk ; A souvenir to Lord Nuffield \ from Oba Alairfelwia Aderaola CBE \ Alake of Abeokuta. \ May 1937 ; ; donor