Read & Dalton 1899: Elephant tusk carved in relief, in the same style as Af1224.2. The plaited band at the base is much decayed; there are twelve figures on the outer curve in the usual variety of dress, one of them being a European with two half figures of Europeans apparently as attendants; beyond these, on the sides of the tusks, are two other Europeans each shooting at a deer with a cross-bow. (See Fig 6 on details image.) The eighth figure from the bottom represents a chief or god with curved appendages in place of legs ending in cat-fish heads, his head-dress also represents a cat-fish, and a snake issues from each hip; he holds in his right hand a knife-dagger and in his left a jointed staff. (Fig. 7, details image.) A similar figure, but with crocodiles issuing from his head, is on the side of the tusk, but in the last a crocodile comes from between the cat-fish legs and is attacking a deer. Another figure on the side represents a Bini chief riding a horse and holding a spear ; the last figure next the point of the tusk has a cat-fish head-dress, and holds a cat-fish in each hand; two of the same creatures proceed from his hips. (Fig. 9, details image.) On the inner curve are several conventional cat-fish; from the mouth of one of them issues a snake, which appears to be disgorging two cat-fish. Among the other subjects are figures of Europeans, birds devouring snakes, deer, &c. The point of the tusk is carved to represent a chief's head with two faces.
Exhibited: 1970-1973, London, Museum of Mankind, Divine Kingship in Africa 1997-1998 Sep-Jan, Osaka, National Museum of Ethnology, Images of Other Cultures 1998, Feb-Apr, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Images of Other Cultures