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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Prestige Drinking Horn
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Prestige Drinking Horn

Maker Babanki Artist
Dateundated
Made/manufacturedCameroon, Africa
MediumBuffalo horn
ClassificationsFurnishings and Equipment
Credit LineGift of Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan
Object number2005.24
On View
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Collections
DescriptionHorn carved with geometricized motifs of spiders and frogs, with central image of naturalistic lizard (or crocodile). Uneven edge on top of horn.
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Babanki Artist
20th Century
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China
17th century
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Congolese Artist (Democratic Republic of Congo)
before 1953
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Bamana Artist
20th century
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Liberian Artist
1830
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Igbo Artist
20th century
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Yoruba Artist
early 20th century
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Ivorian Artist
undated
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Sierra Leonean Artist
c. 1940
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Yoruba Artist
undated
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China
Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911), 18th-19th Century
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Edo Artist
undated