Nice elephant tooth Ivory
Congo   -   1930

L. tooth : 55 cm
This is a legal object,
the tooth is collected before 1930

Complete with stand  -  375 euro

The hats of Bamileke are in feathers of red parrots.
Fon possesses the biggest, which could go to 2 meters in diameter.
Warriors having returned inestimable services to the supreme leader,
Fon, have the right to go into the male company Aka, or " mask of elephant ".
For the burial of Fon, or during their meetings, they take on masks elephants, and dance by shaking the ears of the mask the head put on by a hat of feather of this type.
Every element of the suit is intended to proclaim the wealth, the power and the privileges of Fon.