African elephant bone sculpture

Hi, I picked up this sculpture, the seller though it was whale bone and Polynesian, but it's obviously not bone of a marine mammal.
Nor Polynesian in style.
It looks like elephant bone or hippo bone and west African. Akan maybe?.
As they keep bone or ivory house fetish idols with similar carving of a number of gods in their homes and the carving style looks similar. Any input ?

 

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Welcome, D'Manchago. What is the size?

 

Not too far off, a related culture, a bit further west.
It is a Dayak carving, from Borneo. Judging from the grey gritty structure seen on the back of the head and legs it is antler, which is often used by the Dayak.

 

The same style, only in wood:

https://www.appletreeauction.com/auction-lot/dayak-ancestral-wood-carved-figure-20-1-2-h_FF55A56838

 

And a very nicely carved one, antler like yours:

https://unikaborneo.com/index.php/product/dayak-bahau-maternity-figure/

 

It is about 27cm long and about 7.5 cm wide at the widest in the head .
It's got a slight curve in it that follows the twist of the bone, it is half the bone sk one side or it, the back s open, you can see in the pictures, Looks like the shin of an elephant or a hippo.

 

No it's not antler. It's definitely a bone, the bone of a large mammal.
But it's not anything made in Borneo, the figure has braided hair and is carved in the style of such things from the western part of Africa but from which group I'm not 100% sure as Akan, , gbe, Yoruba and do on have very similar idols

 

https://www.galerie-artculture6.com...f_tiche_cameroun_cm_afrique_animisme_animiste

Here is the same large bone and similar hashed patterns on the body , from the bamum / bamun people of western Cameroon . (Same ones that had a Eurocentric monarch in the 19th century and as such produced many curious cultural things)
It is a much more intricate carvings , . But similar concept but these idols are all over West Africa in many cultures
Here another listed as Akan
https://puces-privees.com/vitrine/v...299/statuette-traditionnelle-akan-en-os,15253

I feel more towards Akan, bamum carving is much more detailed, as is shown in the bamum idol in the link.

 

Can you please post a clear, close-up photo of the bottom of the figure? That may clarify whether it is bone or antler. It looks like antler to me, which would make a Dayak attribution more likely.