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Prestige Drinking Horn
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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Prestige Drinking Horn
Maker
Babanki Artist
Date
undated
Made/manufactured
Cameroon, Africa
Medium
Buffalo horn
Classifications
Furnishings and Equipment
Credit Line
Gift of Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan
Object number
2005.24
Collections
AFRICAN
Description
Horn 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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