Ivory carving collected from Benin, West Africa. Believe to be a rasp, possibly for the feet. Object has a total of fourteen cylindrical teeth in four rows. Silhouette is half rounded top with a small handle.
236. Armlet, West Africa, Made in the 19th century from ivory. Maker unrecorded. 237.Box, Nineteenth Century. A carved ivory box with a lid. 238. Carving in Ivory. An oblong withg one side showing in sunk panel fully clothed man with rosette above. 239. Ivory Rasp? with cylindrical teeth. 240, 241 & 242 Horns.
Donated by Mr F W Lucas in 1925, Solicitor. Collector of Vertebrate skeletal material & ethnographic items. Author. Museum owner. He also lived at St Switherns, 117 Marine Parade, Brighton c. 1911. Lived at 117 Marine Parade Brighton (July 1914). Vertebrate collections entirely purchased. A letter from Lucas to A F Griffith, Six original photographs of his Rottingdean Museum, five copies of his museum & one of him as well as his original (hand written) catalogue are in the Booth Museum biographical reference section. Donated R2015 collection in 1919. Register states address as: Northgate house, Rottingdean
Donated R2778 collection in November 1925: Register states address as: Speer (?) Court, Newbury, United Kingdom.
Historic Label: Foot rasp? Benin, West Africa. Lucas Coll.
Accession Register Entry: Header: West Africa 239. Ivory Rasp? with cylindrical teeth. ? For feet. Benin.