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Linden-Museum Stuttgart: 010324




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Object description
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Object Name	Elephant tusk
Description	In large parts of Africa, the elephant is probably the most important royal animal. Its characteristics (size and strength, cleverness, but also social coexistence in a herd under the leadership of the lead cow including "ancestor worship", i.e. dealing with the bones of deceased herd members) symbolize the role of the king. Furthermore, the king possessed an economic ivory monopoly and demanded one of the tusks from each hunted animal. These were a commodity that was also highly sought after by the Europeans. Carved elephant tusks stood in groups on the royal ancestral altars in the palace courtyards. Wealthy burgher families imitated this. European sources first report uncarved tusks on the ancestral heads of burgher altars in 1651. Since 1787 we also know about carved specimens. Text: Dietmar Neitzke.
Type	Elefantenzahn
Materials	Ivory
Size, Dimensions	Length: 110 cm. Diameter: 11 cm.
Dating of Object

Museum / Collection / Acquisition
This information was provided by the German museum where the object is currently located or where it was located prior to restitution.

Museum	Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Museum Inv.-No	010324
Collector	Hans Meyer (Leipzig, Germany)
Acquisition date	1890?
Circumstances of acquisition	Hans Meyer (Leipzig, Germany) donated it to the Linden-Museum together with a plaster cast of another tooth, which, however, is no longer preserved today. Text: Markus Himmelsbach.

Notes

Current ownership status and location

Status	restituted
Date of last status change	14 December 2022
Current ownership	Federal Republic of Nigeria
Holding institution	National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM, Nigeria)
Current location	Temporarily at the Linden-Museum Stuttgart

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Object Type	tusk
Materials	ivory
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Dataset

ID	169
last Change	2023-01-26 12:15:00
License	Linden-Museum Stuttgart

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