Hollow, decorated with 4 vertical serpent forms in low relief, one on each side of the rectangular shaped blow hole, one above the mouth hole and one below the mouth hole. Lower section of the horn has six pairs of horizontal bands enclosing vertical ribbed bands.
Prior to 1975, provenance not yet documented; before 1975, possibly Charles Ratton, Paris; by 1975, Merton D. Simpson Gallery, New York; 1975, purchased from Merton D. Simpson Gallery by the Brooklyn Museum.
Images of power: art of the royal court of Benin, New York University, the Grey Art Gallery, January 23 - February 21, 1981. Dartmouth College Museum, "African Splendor," April 11 - May 5, 1980.