Tusk Carved in Relief Artist: Tombe

late 19th century

African Art

On view, 1st floor, African Art
Medium

Ivory and graphite

Dimensions

24 1/2 × 1 3/4 × 1 3/4 in. (62.2 × 4.445 × 4.445 cm)

Credit Line

Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection

Accession Number

2006.51.466

Culture
Period

19th century

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Arcade Gallery, London, to May 29, 1989; Charles B. Benenson Collection, donated to Yale University Art Gallery in 2004
Bibliography
  • Z. S. Strother, Humor and Violence (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2016), 2–3, 70–73, fig. 1.1, 3.15, 3.16
  • Frederick John Lamp, Amanda Maples, and Laura M. Smalligan, Accumulating Histories: African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012), 272–273, ill
  • "Acquisitions, July 1, 2006–June 30, 2007," in "Japanese Art at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 4, ill
  • "Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," in "Photography at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006), 222
  • Robert Farris Thompson, "Icons for the Brave and Generous: Kongo Art at Yale," in "African Art at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2005), 85, fig. 7
  • Frederick John Lamp, "Charles Benenson and His Legacy of African Art to Yale," in "Recent Acquisitions 2001–2003," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004), 36, ill
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