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Date:
1951 and 1989
Description:
Two bullet-shaped ivory buttons with carved faces; four holes in each to attach to garment; origin Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).
Description:
Ivory hairpin, curved with a pointed tip on one end and the other a carved head of a woman; hair is that of a Mangbetu woman, decoration on torso.
Date:
1951 and 1989
Description:
Red ivory trumpet with a carved human form; used by the Mbo and Ndaka people in the initiation of the Mbuti people; origin central Africa.
Date:
1951 and 1989
Description:
Red ivory trumpet with a carved bird and snake, some kind of skin around larger opening; origin Central Africa.
Date:
1950
Description:
Carved ivory ring; origin Ituri, but also found in northern Uganda.