Featured An intersting Ivory sculpture

Could anyone me the topic, origin, and age of this piece.

It looks like a kind of tribe worship scene ... they waiting in line and climbing a tower, by the top there is an animal.

do you think this about African or other culture ?

 

size and diameter of open end?

 

1 3/4" wide at bottom open end, Approximately 15" long

 

How long is this? {just answered}

This looks to me more like some kind of horn coated over with a resin of some sort & crosshatching meant to look like Schreger lines drawn on.

 

For ivory the width is too narrow compared to length. So maybe it is made of bone.

 

I think it’s in the Loango style.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ivo...yXtm3NNmMtAb7pJmoDA&bih=445&biw=320&prmd=sivn
I don’t think its Ivory.

 

Could be Loango, could be neighbouring Kongo or one of the other neighbours. These are generally called Kongo ivories, and they are ivory. The cross-hatching design is decorative/symbolic and not meant to deceive.
Historic Kongo covered parts of present-day Congo, Gabon and Angola.
@2manybooks will probably know more.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongo...ephant_Tusk_Carved_with_Figures_in_Relief.jpg

 

+1
I'm not seeing Schreger lines in the blank areas nor on the figures. The spiral ascending strips seem to have vertical lines not distinct crosshatching.

 

OP's horn:




These examples found on the internet purport to be ivory. Why so different? Does it, I suppose, depend on the animal it came from?

 

The first photo you put up after OP's looks like elephant ivory as I am used to seeing it. If these long, slender, thin walled tusks are also ivory, I can only imagine they come from young elephants.

 

Crosshatching only appears in cross sections. Ivory does show lines running the long way.