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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 3092310, member: 8267&quot;]Probably made by a Makonde carver. They use <i>Dalbergia melanoxylon, </i>also known as African Blackwood, and mpingo in swahili. </p><p>&quot;Considered the original ebony, African Blackwood was imported and used in Ancient Egypt thousands of years ago. Even the name “ebony” has an Egyptian derivation as “hbny”—which has been shown to refer primarily to <i>Dalbergia melanoxylon</i>, rather than the species which are considered to be ebony today: such as those in the <a href="https://www.wood-database.com/hardwoods/ebenaceae/diospyros/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wood-database.com/hardwoods/ebenaceae/diospyros/" rel="nofollow">Diospyros genus</a>.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.wood-database.com/african-blackwood/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wood-database.com/african-blackwood/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wood-database.com/african-blackwood/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.blackwoodconservation.org/makonde-art/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.blackwoodconservation.org/makonde-art/" rel="nofollow">https://www.blackwoodconservation.org/makonde-art/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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