Ancestral Altar Tusk
Cleveland Museum of Art

Ancestral Altar Tusk

c. 1820

Elephant ivory
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Originally, this carved tusk was placed on an ancestral altar as part of an ensemble of objects made to memorialize a deceased Ọba (ruler).

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