Beschreibung:

length 25in probably a royal footrest or part of a royal throne, with motifs of the bird icon, male and female figures with drinking horn, and the spider icon, commonly found on the Babanki-Tungo type. Provenance: Ernest Anspach, New York, 1988 Exhibited and Published: African Arts, Indiana University Museum, 1996; Museum of Primitive Arts, 1967-68 (figure 59); Northern, Tamara, Royal Cameroon, 1973, Dartmouth College, page 67; African Ivories, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, figure 85; The Art of Cameroon, African American Institute, 1980; Ross, Doran, Elephant, The Animal and its Ivory in African Culture, 1992, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, Figure 11-7.